Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest Jesuits. The picture was Monastery, a European religious documentary film, the better part of which was made by Robert Alexandre of Pathe Cinema de France, who directed Cloistered, first picture ever made in a convent (TIME, June 1, 1936). Dedicated to Cardinal O'Connell, with his express permission, Monas tery had its U. S. premiere at the Fine Arts Theatre last week, the $10-a-seat proceeds of $5,850 going towards a Father Ahern Fellowship in Seismology at Weston College outside Boston...
What it lacks in circulation (as contrasted with the Daily Express's 2,400,000 copies), the Times makes up in weighty prestige. Sometimes a hint from the Times's "parliamentary correspondent" paves the way for action at No. 10 Downing Street. Rarely the Times thunders forth, altering British policy. During a crisis foreign embassies with almost comic concern telephone the Times to learn what it is going to say, take its words as the British attitude, often before the Foreign Office has made up its mind...
Interviewed by the London Daily Express, the victorious Viscount reminisced: "Miss Royle used to enjoy watching the train in action. When it came to making carriages she was not so keen. I would often get into trouble for working on them instead of taking her to a cinema. Then there were all the tools for making the coaches-special tools for working in miniature. With them I could run up a coach in a fortnight. In fact, experts have congratulated me on some of the coaches I have made. One day I hope to make a model locomotive. I have...
...speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only later, at a banquet given by intimate friends, that he tried to express his gratitude. As he stood up, however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife in his arms, expressed in a long embrace feelings he could not utter. The old man was Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, most famous of present-day composers and "Uncrowned King of Finland...
...based on the somewhat dubious theme that a child of nature should not be forced to endure the strict letter of the white man's law, but before the film is half an hour old, one hates the stupidity of colonial government and everything about it. There is an express- ive and all inclusive word which fits the characters presented by Messrs. Raymond Massey and John Carradine to a T. Mr. Massey feels it incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic pleasure...