Word: cunningness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS-William Butler Yeats - Macmillan ($2.50). If a Dublin Irishman in the course of conversation raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his wise friends know that he is about to quote from William Butler Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel...
The headlong sweep of Christianity from its founding down to the present day was depicted in a cunning mosaic of statistics last week in the American Lutheran by Dr. George Linn Kieffer. A scholarly, bespectacled Lutheran who is president of the Association of Religious Statisticians of America and author of...
Should Ladies Behave (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the fiancé (William Janney) of cunning little Leone Merrick (Mary Carlisle) tells her that she lacks sophistication, the consequences of his naïveté are fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her...
BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that...
No less accomplished a talent than Ethel Waters is sprightly Marilyn Miller, who always seems illumined by a bright inward gayety. Not since Smiles (1930) has Miss Miller been seen on the stage. She rewards her many admirers for her absence with some brilliant ballroom dancing, a cunning burlesque of...