Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With emphasis being laid generally on the Astaire dancing, there is a consequent tendency to neglect the humorous parts of the movie. It is not so funny as a Wodehouse novel, but it's worth the price.
When the subject of baseball was brought up, the Ambassador said that he hoped the Harvard team would make another trip to his country. He added that "at our best institution, Tokyo Imperial, we do not have much emphasis on athletics."
Peter the First (Lenfilm) is a colossally bad imitation of Hollywood's super-colossal technique. It attempts to compress Tolstoy's story of the 36-year reign (1689-1725) of Peter the Great into ten reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The...
In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all...
Citing the powerful role that Christianity has played in the development of Western civilization, Professor Hocking claimed that through its emphasis on the individuality of the soul, the Medieval Church fostered the growing conception of political rights.