Word: disappointment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second or two for applause to come back. Everywhere local politicians were allowed to arrange so many meetings for Alf Landon that he could not possibly attend them all. In Grand Rapids he had to disappoint no less than three such gatherings...
...publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates did not disappoint him, taking him and four companions in for "vagrancy" as soon as they stepped off the train. Enshrined in the county jail, Martyr Browder declaimed: "Our arrests today mark the complete suppression of all civil rights, aggravated by a political campaign. This is one of the many signs of Hitlerism in America...
...posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist of Bertie Wooster's dazed idolatry, Thank You Jeeves, though sure to disappoint Wodehouse addicts, is still a passably amusing farce. Sample dialog: When Bertie is trying to say that a young lady called at his flat and left without explaining why she had come: "She just popped in, popped around a bit and then popped out again...
...well and to the satisfaction of all those who had business with her. She has been the custodian of important, confidential papers. . . . The creature of a boss named -s her successor would have no understanding of Service affairs. We submit to the President that it is far better to disappoint a political henchman than to violate an honored tradition, and to cast odium upon a system which enables the ousting of a thoroughly competent official...
Adapted by Kubec Glasmon (Public Enemy), Horace McCoy and the New York Herald Tribune's onetime crack crime reporter, Joel Sayre, Parole is unlikely to affect the U. S. penal system but it should not disappoint cinemaddicts who like rapid-fire entertainment. Typical shot: Noah Beery Jr., no gorilla-faced "heavy" like his father but a boy-scout type juvenile, receiving a bullet in the back...