Word: distinguisher
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...bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel...
Harvard might have technically blundered by sending him the letter, but good faith does not rest on technicalities. Hanfy is a professional publicity man and he can recognize a form letter when he sees one. He can distinguish between what is President Conant's personal signature and what is not. And he surely knows that if President Conant wanted to change his attitude, he would not inform Hanfy merely by a letter asking for a gift. But the real point is that even if Hanfy did not realize the letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing...
...along capitalistic lines, and this chance retires further and further into the background of possibility when deliberately job-eliminating measures such as the Wagner Bill, the N. R. A., and the Wealth Confiscation Bills are in force, also when the Chamber of Commerce, Monopoly, and High Powered Advertising distinguish our great sandy-geared system...
...That there be created among the graduate functionaries of the Universite, honorary titles intended to distinguish eminent functions and recompense services rendered to enlightenment...
...only Ethiopia's Emperor but also Italy's Dictator to grave misgivings. In a fresh public warning to Britons last week Benito Mussolini, although still in private negotiation with Sir Samuel Hoare through intermediaries, declared: "Italians will organize a most desperate resistance [against sanctions] and will distinguish between friend...