Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous. His particular quality is an ability to secure and hold a dramatic movement through the medium of his delightfully informal style and this together with the fineness of the use of dialogue, makes of his characters living people. He extracts the essentials of episodes and scenes, and delicacy, charm, brutality and courseness come alike in the pictures written out by the author. This is one of the finest novels of the new year. It expresses, like none other, the loamy, heartfelt, antagonism of those simple people who believed the new industrial era was an infringement upon their honest lives...
...charm of I Am Suzanne lies in the way it tells a light love story and at the same time gently parodies it. Where the mood of the picture collapses is in such scenes as the one showing the puppet of Suzanne turning ridiculously into the real Suzanne on the stage of a theatre, the one of a heavy-handed adagio dance in which pretty little Lilian Harvey is tossed about like a beanbag by chorus boys. Good sequence: Suzanne's night mare, when she is dozing in her theatre dressing room, of her trial for murder...
...only possible solution is to reorganize the course. This might be accomplished easily by limiting the lectures to plain discourses on elemental health problems and entirely eliminating the examination. Moreover, they should be given by Dr. Worcester, who because of his charm and lecturing ability is probably the only man who could make them worth hearing. As a sop to University Hall they could be made compulsory. The problem of sex hygiene could be handled far more adequately by a series of small conferences which might be very well held in each entry during the course of the year...
Depression psychology, and the reaction to Mr. Hoover which it engendered, were sufficient to elect Mr. Roosevelt. With the strength of his personal charm, and the vast panorama of bustle which he conjured up, Mr. Roosevelt has been able to withhold the answer. We do not know whether he plans a reformed capitalism, a government purgation, as it were, of the excesses of capitalistic society, or a gradual accession to government ownership. The first would imply that the evils of capitalism are confined to its excesses; the second would imply that the evils of capitalism are in its essence...
...Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master. Race-conscious Negroes and Northern negrophiles consider Authoress Peterkin's gently glowing picture partial, incomplete, but readers in general fall under the charm of her affectionate sympathy. Photographer Doris Ulmann's share in Roll, Jordan, Roll is 70 masterly photo graphs of Negro types, scenes. With these pictures as text, Authoress Peterkin has written a rambling series of delightful sketches. Some of them: Jinny, who took a carving knife to her man when...