Word: cavil
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...sorcerer himself receives a magnificent interpretation from Benjamin Nielson. His singing, costume and makeup suit the role perfectly and with his acting there can be no cavil. His rapid-fire patter song is a genuine show-stopper. As his page, nine-year-old Nicky Deutsch is charming...
...seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into one sonorous and coherent story. He succeeds magnificently. More cautious historians-the economic-theory men, the specialists in constitutional law, the nationalists-will cavil at Churchill's large-minded judgments. Yet this same generosity of spirit enables him to write of the American Civil War as the noblest war-one fought on sheer principle. Even Civil War buffs who know the last cock plume in the "shapos" at Bull Run will be moved...
...three actors in his work all present fine performances. As the hoodlum, Nick, Edward McKirdy not only looks right, but also hits upon just the right way of moving and talking. His is a well-observed and, at the end, even sympathetic piece of acting. Only one minor cavil could be raised: one or two of his lines cannot be understood. As the two policemen, William Gurton and Charles Potter are somewhat eclipsed by McKirdy's role and performance, but they nonetheless acquit themselves with credit...
Alphabetic Cipher. If EDC were fact, the Communists might respond to these stirring challenges. As it is, they can thumb their noses at an alphabetic cipher. Three years of delay and cavil have convinced many Europeans and more Americans that nothing so troublesome, and so lukewarmly supported, as EDC can ever work well. The case against...
...stood since the founding of the Republic. To state that it is the duty of the citizen to appear before congressional committees is only to state that it has always been the right of the government to compel him to do so. This is old stuff, beyond cavil, and common knowledge to anyone concerned with the workings of American government...