Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion of Boswell is clear from the note, "I thought him a clever and comical Follow," and in another place she writes, "Curiosity carried Boswell further than it over carried any Mortal breathing." In retaliation to Boswell's statement that he was not pleased with the great Doctor's intimacy with the Thrale family, and the restraint which it imposed on him, Mrs. Thrale retorted in the margin. "What Restraint can he mean? Johnson kept everybody else under Restraint...
...their characteristic manner. Newcomers to the screen, this comedy trio, whose style closely resembles that of the Marx brothers, steal the show from such old timers as Ned Sparks, the dead-pan comedian of a few years back and Adolf Menjou, who is paired with Arline Judge for some clever repartee...
...professional knowledge of porcelains, her flair for the paler sort of glamour. Since being given her title by a group of cold-blooded couturiers four years ago she has become the world's most photographed non-professional mannequin. In time spared from Society she has written a clever novel (Bright is the Morning, 1934) and cultivated prize-winning tulips. In 1929 Wall Street guessed that the fortune behind these pleasant activities was a fabulous $700,000,000. Last week, while blue-eyed Mona Williams was wintering in Italy, her suave, keen-eyed husband disclosed for the first time...
Jane and Oliver were sister and brother, and they never got on very well, even as children. The trouble began over Oliver's stamp album. After a quarrel in which Jane was clever enough to show him that he was shamefully in the wrong, Oliver made amends by giving her half-interest in his stamp collection. When he was away at school, Jane sent him stamps, among them one of an uncatalogued Antigua issue. But by that time Oliver considered stamp-collecting unmanly. Their mutual interest subsided. They grew up. Years later, when Oliver was a still-unsuccessful novelist...
...first of the double bill at Keith Memorial Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered...