Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany, directed by Robert Land, it lasts almost an hour and is well worth looking at. The characters are so capably cast, the acting is so good that one's eyes seem to hear real voices, the click of heels in corridors, the clink of beer mugs, the faint scratch of a pen. These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo and the superb lighting effects make Primanerliebe another reason why U. S. producers should take some more...
...seems to be a well established tradition among Advocate and Lampoon reviewers that what damning is to be done must be done through the medium of faint praise. Not as a mark of disrespect of tradition, but merely by way of a change, the present reviewer would like to attempt the experiment of stating his criticism as such, thus relieving whatever praise may be forthcoming, from the taint of faintheartedness or hypocrisy...
...squad definitely refuses to level his rifle at Nurse Cavell and he is shot on the spot. The rest line up and at the order to fire each raises his rifle so that the bullets strike above the woman's head. Nurse Cavell, however, falls down in a faint and an officer steps forward and despatches her with a pistol." The pistol used in making the film was, by way of meticulous realism, a German Luger (see photograph...
...present phase of Revelations of a Wife is entitled "Love's Embers" and Mrs. White is planning yet another phase in which "the embers will be reblown into a faint flame." Mrs. White has no intentions of letting the story be snuffed out; in fact, she says: "The exigencies of this novel forbid that they ever shall become real ashes." How she creates these exigencies, day after day, year after year, has been a mystery to many an author. Her method is to introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers...
...years of peace have streamed by, bringing new problems and new crises, the world has come to forget many of the names that blazed before it a decade ago, Wilson is dead. Lloyd George is following the faint glow of his political star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose...