Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple fellow, who brought with him some sandwiches and several letters of introduction; that his stay in Paris was continually under the guiding hand of that master diplomat, Ambassader Herrick, who saw the international value of Lindbergh's flight; that Lindbergh's return to New York, especially his clever treatment of the innumerable stories released concerning him and his mother, was, and still is, considered a masterpiece in the art of handling publicity? I have nothing against him for this, it shows good business sense. The only complaint that I and so many others have is his continual hypocrisy about...
...most comprehensive good thing of this film is that it is a British Gaumont production, of their better and livelier sort. This results in careful but not clever photography, authentic Belgian scenes, a minimum of stock bombardment pictures and a pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity...
...plain fact of the matter is that our Lindy has not been very clever about this business. It is perfectly evident that the air mail contracts were shot through with graft and their wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months...
...came too late to avert the collapse of the monarchy, and in 1840 it merely caused the fall of the government and came near to starting a general European war. I think that if M. Doumergue's artifice succeeds it will be not because it is an essentially clever move but simply because the French public realizes that the definite triumph of any one party will result in civil war or worse. No one faction in France was capable of taking advantage of the late disturbances in order to provoke a successful revolt against Republicanism; and it is extremely unlikely...
Instead of using this ordinary paraphernalia "Ten-Minute Alibi" returns to the school of pure deduction, which depends for its effect on the cleverness of the criminal in accomplishing his dirty work, and upon the narrow escapes which he has in evading justice. Unfortunately, in "Ten-Minute Alibi" the criminal is not very clever, but this is made up for by the number of close calls which he has; they occur, in fact, about every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller...