Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
...primary polls to pick delegates to cast Ohio's 52 pivotal votes in next month's national convention. No native son of theirs had ever got closer to the White House than James Middletn Cox in 1920, who missed it by seven million votes. But now there was a distinct chance that the "Mother of Presidents ? would not only give the Democratic party another nominee but also put him, the first of his kind, into the Presidency...
...Good Earth was picked, said the prize-awarding committee, "for its epic sweep, its distinct and moving characterization, its sustained story-interest, its simple and yet richly colored style." The choice was doubly happy for Authoress Buck. A few days prior had been published her third novel, The Young Revolutionist...
...would have been easy for the director to make the love incidents into an over-luscious and trivial idyll, but instead he has managed to give them a distinct epic quality. Similarly, he might have reduced the religious emotion to the common denominator of funeral-parlor music and rapt faces photographed through gauze. Instead, the impressive pictures of St. Peter's and the deep chanting of the choir are allowed to tell their own story without sugar coating. This reviewer has never seen such an authentic setting-forth in a film of the hypnotic power of the Church of Rome...
Caesar Borgia, Casanova, Talleyrand, Byron, and Thomas a Kempis, St. Francis of Assisi,--these are the sinners and saints whose characters are examined here as a study in contrasts. All of them acted according to Mr. Bradford from distinct motives, so that the casual reader is free to choose his own favorite form of sanctity or sinfulness for study. But whether he turns to St. Francis or Casanova, he will find the same gently ironic insistence on the underlying egotism which prompted them...