Word: cooingly
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...Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased one evening from room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long-lost wife showed up, McKay eluded her by going to Russia, got in under a British Communist's endorsement as observer at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International...
...desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly and skillfully done, at once grisly and delightful; if it leaves some questions unanswered, why ask questions...
...Arthur Goodrich; William Caryl, producer). At a cottage in Auvergne, Bernard Catalan, an aged French playwright, and his wife are about to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. So notably harmonious has this marriage been that the President of the Republic and the Academy send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once betrayed his wife...
...smiled serenely at the officers. At Cawnpore, scene of the Indian Mutiny Massacre of 1857, cavalry were called out. At Karachi police charged a crowd after a public meeting, injured 28. At Allahabad the subpostmaster and two others were killed in a riot. At Srinagar a mob of 12,-coo stormed a police station, freed three prisoners. At Bombay U. S. tourists were frightened away from British shops by saffron-robed women pickets. One tourist persisted in buying a hat, had it snatched from her head. Police found five live .bombs in a first-class compartment of the Darjeeling express...
...First white correspondent to reach General Ma was small, dark, alert Fred Kuh (pronounced "coo") who had dashed 6,000 mi. overland from Berlin where he is Bureau manager for United Press. In crossing the entire breadth of Russia, passing the Soviet frontier, coming on to Tsitsihar, experienced Correspondent Kuh saw no evidence of Red Army troop movements or war preparation of any kind by the Soviet Union...