Word: chap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will like "Berkeley Square" immensely while the common sheep will condemn the piece as decidedly fatuous. The charm of this cinema lies precisely in its dealings with the fantastic and it is this quality that makes it both extraordinary and different as movies go. In the story a young chap from the twentieth country, Leslie Howard by name, projects himself into the eighteenth century there to live over again the romance of ancestor Peter Standish and Helen Pettigrew. Complications are presented in prophetic remarks that so uncannily diagnose the future and which he so inopportunely drops along the way. Throughout...
...plot, direction, and in acting. I should add that the photography was adequate. If there's anything that's commonplace and soporific in the movies. It's the gold-digging wench who suddenly becomes repentant: no less so the rakish, unscrupulous politician who is at heart the best chap in the world...
...James Conant, the chap they just elected President of Harvard...
...local boy, the son of pioneer parents and was a boyhood schoolmate of Bob Crawford, who is well known to you, and a similar type of chap...
...with about 40 per cent writing twice a week. Eighteen per cent of the Freshmen interviewed preferred telephoning home once a week instead of writing. One Freshman denied sending any mail since he has been in college. He excused himself on the grounds that he was a most illiterate chap and had nothing to say anyway...