Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren, earnest but uninspiring, continued to read the platform (see Page 4). After each plank was read, the audience nailed it down with applause, sufficient but not overpowering...
...reeled out in the hair-raising style of the most approved thrillers, you find yourself wondering: "What are these two scriveners up to now?" They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story. But after they have you almost convinced, their deft fingers begin poking around into the defenceless ribs of the plot, and it all ends in roaring farce?a glorious melange of wisdom, wit, suspense, absurdity...
...dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
CONFUSION?James Gould Cozzens? Brimmer ($2.00). Into the story of Cerise d'Atree, this young author (a Harvard sophomore) has packed much earnest sincerity, a good plot, no small measure of literary charm and a deal of honest thought leading to painful conclusions. Despite some immaturities of style, it is an interesting commentary on the value of varying kinds of education...
...doubtful if the average cinema patron, will care for an appraisal of the best pictures of a year ago, now that they have come and gone. But the book will be of no small value to the professional reviewer of the screen, as well as the earnest student of the cinema, if there be any such. It is filled with information, treated with a saving grace of humor. The writer lists the best pictures within the period covered by his book, as follows : Nanook of the North, Grandma's Boy, Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal...