Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
Watch Her was placed on the outside position for bad behavior. She got off to a good start, broke away from the field after a few strides. Jockey Pascuma, who had intended to let her gallop home last as a matter of form, allowed her to run as fast as she wanted. He was even more amazed than the crowd when she ran fast enough to win, a length and a half ahead of Miss Merriment at the finish...
...picture, based on the notion that woman's place is in the home. The banality of this theme is only less startling than the fact that Robert Riskin, who wrote and adapted the story, was clearly under the delusion that he was proposing an explosively novel theory for behavior. This odd combination of circumstances has a peculiar effect. It gives the picture a disarming sincerity; because Fay Wray in a serious emotional role develops a skillful and moving performance, the trite machinations of the plot acquire an incongruous validity. The story: a young architect (Gene Raymond) and his wife...
...canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant solves the not particularly pressing problem of who killed La Tour, by permitting Azrah to hold a spurious seance. All this will build up suspense for the beginning of Trick for Trick in which the presence of these persons and their eccentric behavior is partially explained. If you arrive at the beginning, you are much less likely to be engrossed by a mystery picture which is utterly routine in every detail except the demands it makes upon Ralph Morgan, who seems faintly ill at ease in the turban and smoking jacket...
...General J. E. B. Seely for his work in Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made a Knight of the Thistle for his good behavior. Lord Lytton was made a Knight of the Garter for his League report on Manchuria...