Word: cosmopolitanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership of the House embraces of highly congenial grouping and balancing of cosmopolitan interest made possible by the central assignment committee system, and in it the student is assured of finding an enjoyable background for his college career...
...Parisian institution that lends its name to the production receives only a minimum of attention, which is just as well, since the poor 'Folies" as interpreted by cosmopolitan Hollywood seem to have taken on the Busby Berkeley tradition, all of which we greet with cautious skepticism and even displeasure. Although a prepossessing list of new songs are advertised, none of them seem very promising. It is the mistaken identify with which the film stands or falls, and as far as we are concerned we like this sort of thing...
...Girl." Much of S. N. Behrman's theme of the struggle between mature tolerance and impulsive youth has been scrapped. In its place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...
...poster technique which Warner Brothers perfected in Flirtation Walk has two main advantages. Enlisting the aid of the U. S. Government cuts production costs appreciably. A foreword expressing effusive thanks gives the picture a patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Large, massive, oblong skull, flesh pretty well messed up with scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever...