Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commodore Cunningham was the man everyone had expected would command the Leviathan when, refurbished after her War service, she was recommissioned in 1923. As a lieutenant commander in the Navy during the War, Commodore Cunningham had navigated the Leviathan as a troopship after she was seized from Germany and her name, the Vaterland, erased...
...more idea of being offered the command of the Leviathan that day than a child," said Mr. Hartley. "When we were chatting after the meal one of the officials said to me, 'How would you like to have command of the Leviathan?' I replied, 'Stop your kidding.' To my sur- prise, he said, 'I am not kidding. We want a captain for the Leviathan, and if you would like to have the ship, come round to the Shipping Board offices at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
Where did he go? Why was he banished? The last question must be answered first. Lev Davidovich Trotsky and 50 more prominent Soviet politicians were banished, last week, because they had attempted to lead an opposition wing in the Russian Communist party, a party which brooks no opposition. By command of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, the oppositionists had been cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their...
...Last Command (Emil Jannings) is the story of a cousin to the late Russian Tsar who, after the fume and flames of the revolution,, found his way to the dreary door-steppes of a Hollywood studio...
Despite the romantic frenzy of this tragedy, whose faults are far more obvious in synopsis than in cinematic entirety, The Last Command is indubitably a powerful film. Clumsy-faced, blacksmith-muscled, thick-fingered Emil Jannings, the thoroughly unhandsome hero, is the most finished, the most subtle cinemactor in the U.S. He does everything slowly; smiles break across his face like a gradual sunrise, his sorrows have accumulated intensity. In this picture, he is ably supported by lords, soldiers, peasants, and most notably by Evelyn Brent who is the heroine...