Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in New Orleans, loved it, admired it, complained that she was lonely as a mouse in a trap in the New Boston House in New England, whither her father carried her when Louisiana seceded. New Englanders, she said, were right poky, and all the beaux so immature and awkward she thought the Yankees must execute their men at 21. When one of these milksops announced the first defeat at Bull Run with tears in his eyes-"Our men are running, throwing away their guns and everything"-Miss Ravenel gave a shriek of joy, and then, being polite, ran upstairs...
...must be admitted that Author Brinig's fictitious suicide is more cheerful than John Warde's. But his awkward, correspondence-school prose, his amateur philosophizing make his story less dramatic than mere reporters' accounts of the real thing...
...poeticize the Biological Urge. There were the makings of a truly important picture in "Ecstasy." The scarcity of dialogue, the drifting, almost aimless pace, the startling photography, all would have given the picture rare distinction had they been carried out with technical skill. The production, however, was raw-boned, awkward, and those features that would have saved it were lost...
Back Door to Heaven (Odessco Productions, Paramount release) is an awkward attempt to crash the back door of the cinema industry. It is notable as the first effort of a new producing company headed by Bernard Steele and Stanley Odium (son of Investment Truster Floyd Bostwick Odium, whose Atlas Corp. has a large stake in Radio-Keith-Orpheum and who reportedly put up part of the $350,000 it cost to make the picture in Astoria...
...forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...