Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director King Vidor at times achieves heights: the love scene in a boat gliding under a veil of weeping willow leaves; the tantalizing suspense as the King's eccentric moods alternately delay and hasten his procession to the scene of execution; the camera angles at which the "Stunts" are filmed. Bardelys deserves its popularity, though it falls short of the best of its kind...
...Germany did not seek, but rather tried to fend off, and the British by almost ingenious propaganda infected the pure American air so successfully that Wilson himself, suspicious as he was of the Allies' war aims, succumbed and led the United States to war. Mr. Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they laugh at our idealism and plot to defraud...
...hospital folk had a shock. The patient felt his casts, winced a bit, straightened his good shoulder and announced that he would leave town at once as he had entered it, by airplane. He was on his way from Los Angeles to Mitchell Field, N. Y., and could not delay longer, he said. Doctors expostulated, bystanders said, "Teh, tch!" The elderly gentleman paid no attention, clambered into his plane, flew to Mitchell Field...
...coming down, on a long slant like a tired gull. It was too far off to see a splash, but Thomas Marshall had trawled the English Channel long enough to know a London-to-Paris airliner when he saw one. He did not hesitate. Rather than delay to haul in his nets, he bade his crew hack them free and pointed his smack's nose towards the spot where the splash must have been...
...security and prosperity seemed to cement it firmly in office. But the inability of the regime to cope with a grave problem of national importance, as that of last May, other than by merely "muddling through" for the time being, has surely shaken the confidence of the people. A delay such as this is an actual loss no matter from what angle it is viewed. Idle manpower, expense of maintenance of the mines without production from them, an increasing feeling of discontent and anxiety for the future are about as potent a group of destructive forces as one can imagine...