Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over a dog, a part difficult to reconcile with the fact that she is a Colonel in the Unites States Army, but perhaps she is really maternal after all, and the public has been misled by Democratic propaganda. She shows other virtues, in failing miserably to make plausible an implausible scene of the crippled showgirl who gives...
...Philadelphians. They went to the opera and concerts, belonged to the oldest clubs. They were solidly and securely wealthy. They had a fortune that was built upon natural gas in the dark ages of oil, the dark ages of the Titusville period, ante Rockefeller and ante Standard. It was difficult to picture these Philadelphians in the new order of things. The gods of the new independents were the Phillips Brothers, dashing Harry Ford Sinclair and his quieter brother Earle, Pennsylvania-born William Grove Skelly, cocky Wirt Franklin, lavish Ernest Whitworth Marland. Joshua S. Cosden who would bet on anything...
...average student who attends college in or near a city, it may be a somewhat difficult matter to imagine the possibilities that offer themselves to the country-bred student for an escape from the artificialities of our all too complex civilization...
...when Time at last decrees an end to festivities, it is sometimes a rather difficult matter to return to the ordinary classroom routine...
...difficult to see why this series, the modern counterpart of the great religious frescoes of the Renaissance, has caused such an upheaval in the Impressionist schools. The realm of art was as much disturbed by the trial of the fishmonger and the poor shoemaker as the political situation of the decade...