Word: churlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Face the Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
...save here self from jail, she puts herself in his power; and a particularly unpleasant power it is. Mr. Bickford, though often cast as a hero, is the most disagreeable exponent of brute force on the screen. Unlike Mr. George Bancroft, his forcefulness is simply illmannered, his strength merely churlish...
...dead against any policy of narrow monetary nationalism in matters of trade. Certainly we, who have thousands of millions engaged in foreign enterprises all over the earth, should be the last people even to contemplate a churlish attitude toward capital merely because it is foreign...