Word: calms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vague air of triangle is developed in the obvious ways. The singing is exploited by an interminable series of shots in which Douglas cracks various glass objects with his baritone fortissimo, and the final scene when he breaks up an opera by getting drunk on potions designed to calm him down before his entrance. This latter episode gets its effect by his drunken degradation--a type of humor that is not attractive. Finally there are several subplots to bolster the obvious inadequacies of the main story: Douglas is the proprietor of a failing wreckage business; his father...
Prohibition was comparatively calm according to John, except for a certain fruit juice peddler. When he was arrested for soliciting in freshman dorms without permission, police examined his "fruit juice" and labeled it 16 percent alcohol...
...mind where you know that you have a task ahead and it has to be done carefully and it has to be done just right," he said, rocking gently back & forth beneath the Stars & Stripes and the Great Seal of the United States, "then there comes a certain calm and peace of mind which are the essence of the administration of justice...
With a certain personal peace of mind, after months of monumental calm in the face of harassing attack from the defense lawyers, the judge then described the essence of justice...
...mother, who comes and takes her home, while Richard adventures on through the South. As social history, The Big Cage is sometimes authentic, sometimes unconvincing. As fiction it is notable mainly for Lowry's ability to take sentimental and overworked material and brighten it with a calm and matter-of-fact humor...