Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venizelos' greatest political strength has always been in his native Crete and among the Macedonian mountaineers along the northern frontier. Macedonians too are the best-known troops in the Greek Army, the be-tasseled, be-kilted Evzones familiar to all tourists. Other plotters had been at work in Macedonia where rebellion spread like quicksilver. They were less successful with the white-kilted Evzones. The Athens detachment rebelled tentatively, was quickly subdued with a few volleys of gunfire. Next morning other Evzones regiments were patrolling the city beside loyal Tsaldaris troops...
...ensuing race is easily the most exciting horse race we have ever seen on the screen, and Broadway Bill comes through only to collapse after the finish, his delicate system overtaxed by the tremendous exertion--with the usual amorous by play the picture concludes. This may sound somewhat boringly familiar, but Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy play their parts with sincere skill and simplicity, and make the film genuinely entertaining...
...Maybe It's Love" is another of the regular series of boy-and-girl-in-the-big-business-office affairs. At times it's mildly amusing, but it never gets far above the familiar old Hollywood mediocrity...
...Borzage in previous efforts has shown a directorial intelligence and maturity which manifests itself but rarely in this smart set drama from the First National lot. Aside from this little puzzle there is nothing particularly noteworthy about "Living on Velvet." The story stands on the shakiest sort of familiar actions--wealthy young man addicted to aviation cracks up with his father, mother, and sister, all of whom are killed. The accident upsets him terrifically and his mental state gets somewhat non compos. Noble friend in need sticks by him and helps him with the lady who is very much concerned...
...apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high life and are intended to make less implausible by contrast a wandering plot in which Jim Branch saves Sharon from an entanglement with the would-be Senator by getting the facts to show that...