Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard is equally superb...
STATEMENT P. 51 YOUR APRIL 29 ISSUE "LAWYER NEYLAN HAS NEVER LOST A JURY TRIAL" ERRONEOUS. NEYLAN DAMN CLEVER LAWYER BUT LOST JURY CASE FOR LIBEL SOME TWO YEARS AGO, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIF., BROUGHT BY ONE BAUGH AGAINST SAN FRANCISCO EXAMIXER...
...Patman Bonus bill, which President Roosevelt was in good faith bound to veto. Priest Coughlin predicted: "It would be political suicide for the President to veto the Patman bill. He is too clever a politician for that. If he does veto it-." The priest shrugged a disclaimer for the President's fate in that event...
...short subject, which is very moral, seems to represent the beginning of a series of "uplift" two-reelers fighting against crime. This particular one dramatizes a very clever crime and then shows us that the federal agents most always get their man. The crime is so skillful and the entrance of the policemen so fortuitous that we felt quite stimulated to our first major crime, Q.E.D...
...theme, unpopular in an individualistic day, which opens up like a never-ending vista from Author Mann's pages. As a mere tour de force, in revivifying the fossilized record of a universally familiar legend. Young Joseph would be a masterpiece, but it is far more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point where he is sold to the Ishmaelites and carried to Egypt, Author Mann's deceptively quiet method gathers in whole eons of human history. Says Mann...