Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of treating newspapermen as gentlemen seemed worthy of a trial. We followed this line of action with whatever restrictions we could exact. I may state parenthetically that, with only an occasional exception, the reporters conducted themselves as ladies and gentlemen...
...Clairvoyant (Gaumont-British), remotely suggested by an Ernst Lothar novel about a man who discovered he had the gift of detailed and exact prophecy, makes eerie entertainment out of the supernatural. Like The Scoundrel which needed two outright miracles for a happy ending, The Clairvoyant uses the modest method of understatement...
...straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes an historic political speech. Its exact words might be missing but from the front page of every newspaper in the land, the country clearly understood the President's remarks to have been, in effect, as follows...
...exact amount of each stipend has not yet been determined but is estimated at around a thousand dollars a year...
Williamson's art is the exact opposite of the rationalists with their stressing of "natural causes" and "real" emotions. He uses improbable events to produce psychological reactions which are to all intents and purposes valid. The constant struggling of Fraulein Emma's soul to escape the onslaught of what seem to her substantiations of her belief is accurately portrayed, and so too are the characters of yellow-haired Lieal whom she finds singing in the woods after her canary has died, and the unreliable, dark-haired Karl who comes to Fraulein Emma after the death...