Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only in high Tory circles catered to by the London Morning Post was it frankly said that Benito Mussolini might have great difficulty in deciding what clever Sir Samuel actually meant. "It is possible to imagine Mussolini meditating various conclusions from the words used," said the Post, adding with satisfaction, "there is nothing in the speech to suggest that in the last resort England would act alone to maintain the integrity of Ethiopia." But Sir Samuel's speech was not about an English solo but rather about a European concert on behalf of Ethiopia and "when I say collective responsibility...
Fred Astaire plays the part of a misunderstood and much abused bachelor whom the decorative Ginger Rogers mistakes for the husband of a friend. However the plot, such as it is, is unimportant, except as it provides opportunity for clever farcical dialogue and terpsichorean wooing by Fred Astaire...
...week, the Realmleader observed: "Keim was not wholly responsible for his crime." Nazi jurists commented that the Keim killing was nonpolitical, recalled that Realmleader Hitler has never interfered with a political beheading. Notably Der Reichsfuhrer refused to spare beauteous Baroness Benita von Berg, famed aristocratic German stooge of a clever Polish spy (TIME...
Among exiled Greek royalties those who dislike beauteous Marina, Duchess of Kent, insist that this onetime Princess of Greece is a clever, ambitious minx bent on jacking up her husband into something of more consequence than the youngest and willowiest son of Britain's George V. Marina knows that Greek Premier...
...marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most of one of the fattest parts that it has ever been the good fortune...