Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfection. Jessamine Newcombe as Fulton's wife does well in a none too flashy role. Elaine Tilson acquits herself nobly in the slightly ludicrous role of the attractive young woman who sneaks into the stodgy hero's room at night to hear him read Tennyson and makes a pretty direct plea for his affections. But Francesea Lenni as Fulton's daughter, the center and cause of most of his troubles, is singularly awkward and amateurish in the rendition of most of her lines...
...parietal rule concerning House guests has gone into effect, and with it goes a liberal spirit that is the direct antithesis of the in-famous "two women" regulation. It incorporates a practicable philosophy worthy of the Harvard tradition...
...delivery of ten new bombers. Another German faction, that of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, "The Great Ideologist of the Nazi Party," holds that colonies have always cost the countries that owned them more than they are worth. Germany must have additional territory, agrees Dr. Rosenberg, but it must be a direct extension of the land surface already covered by the Fatherland-therefore, "War to the East" to establish Nazi rule over the rich Ukraine...
Artist Copley continued to ship pictures to London where they won great praise from Sir Joshua Reynolds and his group, but Copley did not move to London until 1774. In London his work lost the crude color and simple, direct line of his colonial period. On the other hand, Copley was able to indulge to the full his fondness for painting satins, velvets, rich laces. He began to compose grandiloquent historical scenes like The Siege of Gibraltar, The Death of Lord Chatham...
...paid to Father Divine, that on many a night the clinking of coin could be heard in the black man's bedroom. Best documented affidavit was that of "Rebecca Grace" (Mrs. Verinda Brown), who with her husband gave the cause $5,317, of which $4,051 was paid direct to the Father. Affirmed Mrs. Brown in Lawyer Lesselbaum's language...