Word: convey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without laboring analogies Poet Frost yet manages to convey in his homespun terms a philosophy that has both personal and political implications...
...jumped New York's Representative Edward Curley. "I am reminded," said he, "of the story told of that famous French philosopher and statesman, Voltaire, who in his dying days, during one of his sicknesses, said to his physician with respect to this bill: 'You are trying to convey drugs about which you know little into a body about which you know less to cure a disease about which you know nothing...
...pocket to get past the customs inspectors; once more in Madrid, where she joins her oily confederate (John Halliday). When the three are sequestered together in an Andalusian mountain inn, the flirtation between Bradley and Madeleine suddenly ripens into something else, something which Director Frank Borzage contrives to convey in scenes which are at once gay, delicate and, in view of the cinema's attitude toward such matters since the Legion of Decency started to operate in 1934, sensationally explicit...
...tell her of her uncle's death and her succession to the Throne of England. Suddenly Actress Hayes appears, long locks falling to her shoulders, a night dress sweeping the floor. She receives the news without a word, but by some alchemy of gesture and expression, manages to convey in full the young queen's terrific bewilderment, anxiety and delight. Those who saw Miss Hayes a good 16 years ago as the extraordinary dream-child in Dear Brutus could almost hear the echo of her plaintive cry, "I don't want to be a might-have-been...
...abused widow of a man who not only betrayed her but also infected her son Oswald, Mme Nazimova, now 56, manages to convey every shade of pride, courage and despair, by her trick of singing rather than speaking her lines, by the manifold gestures of her hands and even of her back. Her supporting cast-McKay Morris, Harry Ellerbe and pretty Ona Munson, fresh from musicomedy-seems to have caught fire itself from the sparks of her genius...