Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performances of the individual members of the cast are uniformly of a high standard. Genevieve Tobin acquits herself well as Mary Dugan, a role which requires more skill than work. But even she is outshone by Arthur Hohl as District Attorney Galway. His is a magnificent rendering, packed with difficult situations and humorous touches. He fights a losing battle, but retains throughout a liberal amount of sympathy from friends and foes alike. Robert Williams, as the younger brother Jimmy, makes the most of a popular part...
...will be said that such a scheme would lead to specialization and narrowness. To a certain extent this objection is valid, though a wide variety of types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult to see how active intellectual curiosity can be aroused among undergraduates, naturally tending toward diffusion of effort, without some specification, and consequently narrowing, of interest. Alan R. Sweezy...
...means of a variety of devices, none of them very new but all skillfully executed and entertaining. It soon appears that the wife of the French ambassador has some incriminating letters from her husband's subordinate, the attache, that make the task of this young man more than ordinarily difficult and provide an abundance of embarrassing situations. Epigrams on the nature of virtue, love, and related matters help keep the dialog from sagging after a rather lame beginning, and there is some room for satire of a rather superior brand on the diplomatic profession...
...never lost the heavyweight championship, was reconsidered for the honor. Frantic and slow elimination contests were held, meaning nothing. Tex Rickard, having made professional boxing into a sport more spectacular than any since the wild animal shows of the late Roman Empire, was faced with a far more difficult task, that of preserving its pomp and magnitude...
...book transactions of this magnitude it would be difficult to estimate the elements of litterateur, bibliophile and businessman in each buyer or seller. Certain it is that shrewd business instinct prevails to a large degree. People were aghast at the prices, at the possibilities of further increase. They pondered investment in books as against investment in stocks. They had good reason...