Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last fortnight Ashgrove's two-acre turkey field lay calm and ordered, with some 1,000 turkeys roosting on bark-limbed perches or in their big, immaculately whitewashed house. Next morning the field was a shambles of blood, feathers, mangled turkeys and broken glass. At first attendants thought there must be 300 turkeys lying with tooth-marked backs and broken necks. A count cut their estimate to 153. No one had seen the marauders, but it took no Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been...
...with the proper attitude to become the victims of the egotism of Mr. Perkins, and the suavity of his mistress and secretary, Miss Baxter. An awkward situation develops and is saved through the brilliance of Miss Baxter; and it is delivious to observe the triumph of evil pleasantry over calm, resolution, because the calm resolution gives way to consternation, and the evil pleasantry retains its philosophic, if not obvious, calm...
...expected and delegates of the World Monetary & Economic Conference had been waiting all day for it. Suddenly the Prime Minister's motor car was sighted and word whipped round that the message had come. Scot MacDonald, alighting hatless in full evening dress, stepped inside and tried to calm the delegates, urged them by inference to go home...
College Humor (Paramount) is a frantic little absurdity about an institution called Midwest (football rival: Yarwood) where Jack Oakie is the dormitory dunce, Lona Andre the campus belle, Richard Aden a neurotic footballer, and Bing Crosby the professor of music. With that inappropriate calm which is his chief distinction, Crosby yodels songs called "Learn to Croon," "Play Ball," "Moon-struck," ''The Old Ox Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair...
...moments, like the one in which Jennie tells about Love while fitting her daughter's high school graduation dress, when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter, are perfectly cast. Good sequence...