Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simpering, nasty temperament which makes her ruin the lives of the rest of her family. When she first arrives home she acts the part of a normal person coming to her family circle after some extremely trying, emotional ordeal. Her joy and sadness and reactions here, however, are in direct opposition to her later, flighty giddiness which show her to be the utterly disgusting, carnal lover that she is. But such points are of minor importance in considering the excellent job Miss Foster does in this most difficult part...
...office as Aida progressed, caught his unposed facial expressions as he listened to Martinelli's high notes, to the thunderous applause. Finally, the camera watched him clap on his hat, shrug into his overcoat, trudge wearily down the corridor, away from the last Met opening he will ever direct...
Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, did his bit as an executive of the National Aeronautic Association by trying to get General Hugh S. Johnson to direct, Edsel Ford and Philip K. Wrigley to back a North-&-South-American Air Derby modeled on the Mildenhall-to-Melbourne race...
...League for Decency, and kindred organizations, are laboring under a popular fallacy that deserves more consideration than it has in the past. Only when the would-be reformers realize that all art, literature, and other popular expressions of ideas, are a direct reflection of the times and the people living in them will any kind of change be possible...
...Expenditure of $880,000,000 of unexpended funds for direct relief until the new works program is in full swing...