Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University contains films similar in some respects; widely divergent in others. Both pictures unroll under the aegis of Paramount, both were produced in the East, and both have women in the leading parts, and there's an end to likenesses. For one is a sparkling comedy, "Rebound", featuring the clever Ina Claire, and the other a dog-oared story, indifferently acted, named "The Magnificent Lie", in which a disappointing Ruth Chatterton fibs frequently although never with any degree of magnificence...
...houses, a Senate and a Skupshtina. Senators must be 40 years of age. will serve six years. Half will be elected by the people, half appointed by the King. Deputies are all elective, will serve four years. Jugoslavia remains divided into the new provinces or Banats. a clever scheme of King Alexander's to break up the old racial groups (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929). But the Governors of the Banats will be given greatly increased powers. Ever-protesting Croatia will resume its old boundaries, with the exception of the old county of Sypmia which continues to be split...
...Miller stole the warden's son's clothing, dieted from 180 to 130 pounds, fit himself into the grey linen suit, blue shirt, sport belt, black & white sport shoes, clapped the golf hat on his head, seized a golf stick, sauntered to freedom. After a holiday in Davenport, Iowa, clever Convict Miller borrowed an automobile, started for Chicago. At Dixon, 111., he came upon something he had never seen before or during his twelve years in prison?a red traffic light. He gave it one contemptuous kok and drove merrily on. That night in the Dixon jail "Arthur Morris," arrested...
...Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with two firm feet to fall on, but she turns weak as water before her outlandish Syrian lover. Best scene: farewell of Bertha Geiger. half-cracked old family servant, to her mistress who does not remember...
...Lawyer Lowry was clever and Artist Kent crusaded loudly. The story got into the newspapers and the Public Service Commission decided against the railroad. In November 1930 passenger service was resumed...