Word: contrasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
...that when he pitches the club's advertisements say: "Dizzy Dean - in person." While pitching, Gomez chews gum. He throws with an easy overhand motion, balancing the backswing of his left hand with the upswing of a size-13 cleated shoe. The dignity and competence of his demeanor contrast strangely with the stories of his eccentricities. These are partly true, partly the framework of legend invented to support another one of baseball's superstitions, that all left-handed pitchers are a trifle crazy...
Though Communism and Fascism are the loudest sideshows in today's Bartholomew Fair, Socialism is still doing business at the old stand. By contrast with its fiercer-breathing rivals. Socialism has come to seem a much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
With 200,000 members in the Cincinnati archdiocese and 2,000,000 more throughout the U. S., the Legion last week made the following additional news in church and cinema worlds: Reported Variety: "The agents no longer know just what to consider dirty any more. . . . In contrast to the slow market for spicy stuff, there is a boom in interest in outdoor plots and other yarns that are spotless from a censor's view...
...Contrast Cicero's attitude toward the bankers (for example, in the Manilian Law) to that of President Roosevelt toward certain bankers today...