Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replying to Major Clement R. Attlee, leader of the Labor opposition, Baldwin said: "There can be no morganatic marriage. The lady who marries the king becomes queen, and her children would be in the direct line of succession. The only possible way to put the matter right would be by legislation. His Majesty's government is not prepared to introduce such legislation. It would need the assent of all the dominions, and I am satisfied that this assent would not be forthcoming...
Their personal relationship, at one time apparently tender, changed to a purely professional and far more binding one. Dietrich went out with other men, but on important Hollywood occasions von Sternberg was still her escort. It was at his counsel that she let Mamoulian direct her in Song of Songs. The picture was not wholly a success. After this partial failure Dietrich returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much...
...Founder's own chair. Generations of dead Talcotts gaze from their portraits on the walls of the office of President J. (for James) Frederick Talcott, the founder's son, who is now 70. His son, James Talcott Jr., is first vice president and the ninth in direct descent from the Worshipful John Talcott, one of the British-born fathers of the State of Connecticut...
...good Elks, since both have been in politics for a long time. Jim didn't go to college, so he missed joining a Greek Fraternity. John D. M. didn't became a Phi Alpha Delta at Northwestern University in 1916. Curly-haired, youthful, with a smile and a direct manner of speaking as valuable as Jim Farley's handshake, John D. M. Hamilton is better looking than his brother Hale, who appears in small movie parts, usually as the smugly successful business executive not adverse to a shady deal...
...such little anecdotes, and his style of relating them is as light and pleasant as the matter he deals with. His method is to take up chronologically the administration of each president as seen from the window of the College Kitchen. According to him the College prospered in direct relation to the state of the culinary arts. Whether you believe his thesis or not, you will certainly enjoy his treatment...