Word: convey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even to Russians the swarthy Kremlin Dictator does not convey his views or orders in a monolog. Like Mussolini, Stalin has the habit, nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned...
...likely to be the case with cinema stories which are genuinely suited to their medium, no recapitulation of the plot of The Whole Town's Talking can begin to convey its superlative qualities as entertainment. Equipped with material which they could have used as the basis for uproarious comedy or stark horror, Scenarists Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion...
...which caused most audiences to dislike it. The film develops the superficialities of the story more extensively and resolves its crisis with .suicide instead of murder but it remains an embittered and exciting study of primitive perplexities in polite society. As the invalid's nurse, who has to convey to the audience her jealous love for him and her stoic hatred of his wife in a role almost devoid of lines, Peggy Wood gives the outstanding performance. As the wife, Josephine Hutchinson seems more wisely cast than she was in Happiness Ahead. Her next picture will...
...Vanderbilt Hall at the Medical School, have individual kitchens. A central kitchen in Smith Hall prepares the food for Leverett, Kirkland, Winthrop, Eliot, and Lowell. a system of tunnels quite distinct from the heating tunnels provides communication between Smith Hall and the other Houses through which heated food trucks convey soups, vegetables, roasts, etc. In each of the dining halls so served there is a serving kitchen, where the food from the general kitchen is kept hot and many articles such as chops, steaks, egg dishes and special orders are actually cooked. At the Business School the layout...
...PLEASE CONVEY TO 60 JOB SEEKERS WHO WROTE ME AFTER MY NOMINATION OF POSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY AS MAN OF THE YEAR [TIME, Dec. 3] MY REGRETS THAT UNIVERSITY WITH WHICH I AM AFFILIATED ALLOWED NO OFFICIAL TO ENDORSE CANDIDATE FOR POLITICAL OFFICE STOP THIRTY TWO COPIES OF NEWSMAN KENT'S ARTICLE CONDEMNING FARLEY FOR USING FIVE YEAR OLD SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTING APPROVED BY POSTMASTER GENERAL BROWN AND REPUBLICAN CONGRESS ALSO RECEIVED...