Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really difficult to single out any one part of the revue for special comment. Of course, Bert Lahr and Cliff Edwards are good, the former at his best in the song "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You." Cliff Edwards scores two smashes--as Mussolini in the song "Boondoggling," and as Henry the Eighth in a skit...
...life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more successful with Vronsky, although the part was loss difficult. Even Stiva, Holly, and Kitty were handled without imagination...
...this be? What barm do the cyclists do? What dangers do they bring with them? Can the Metropolitan District Police find nothing better to do than drive cyclists from the Harvard Lollery? Surely, as Edgar Guest might state, the crushing of a worm is neither a laudable nor a difficult achievement...
...League of Nations could get Great Britain unless he knew beforehand what attitude the U. S. would take-i.e., that Washington would help. By last week Statesman Baldwin was rounding his rough notion smooth. "The most extreme sanction," he declared wisely at Wolverhampton, "would be a very difficult one in the absence of three countries now outside the League-America, Japan and Germany...
...case of serious U. S. music remains a difficult one to try. In theory, audiences are eager to keep in touch with what is being written. In practice they usually seem bored or completely baffled by scores which they hear once and seldom ever again. Critics are of little help when they attempt to pass judgment. When Symphony: 1933 was played in Boston, the late Henry Taylor Parker said in the Transcript: "The first movement gives off an American eagerness and boldness and exuberance - of the West rather than the East, where a too insistent gospelling about security has damned...