Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your pleasant review of my latest novel you make the statement that "In real life people never talk so wordily to the point." Are you sure of that? It is a modern and popular dictum, but I doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit that in crowded and busy places, New York, and so on, conversation is mostly reduced to a minimum, but even there it can be found, and, oddly enough, particularly among those whose novels are distinguished for shotgun brevity between characters. Investigate that point. As to the rest of the country, where...
...departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking the gong around, and civil service reform was born full fledged into the republic. The England its birth was difficult, for all the midwifery of Macaulay and of Gladstone, but England is not the United States. The alien does not doubt, but he is not long a citizen before ugly suspicions grow up to cloud his mind...
...miners would logically protect themselves in the face of the reputed activities of the opposing mine owners. Your reports of the NRA and the labor disputes do not cite enough of the activities of the members & petty leaders of the different labor organizations. Too much of the racket appears. Doubt as to the success of the NRA is more frequently spoken of in quarters not heard from before and most from places where labor is presenting difficulties. Little mention is made of the great number of strikes being called because of disputes between labor leaders, where the employer...
...tell now is a good deal more cheerful than that of a few weeks ago. On the whole the team made a good showing in the first game. To be sure, the work wasn't perfect, but then continual shifting about of the players left every one in doubt about the line-up until Eddie Morris turned on his vocal chords. The rapid-fire changes during the week preceding the game were necessary but they didn't make for a coordinated club. The department that felt the effects of this was the running attack and more especially the interference...
...characters are insignificant puppets; the situations are replete with refined slapstick and flippant chatter just one level above that of a mediocre burlesque show, and Noel Coward's personality remains aloof in the background. He is there; for he is, without any doubt, a superior showman who knows the mood of the public. As a movie, "Private Lives" is one of the few that will keep your interest to the end. The photography is particularly skillful in the Alps scenes, and is never slipshod. Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer are convincing lunatics, boisterously funny...