Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot, of course, is neither novel nor amazing, but it does provide a convenient framework for much villainy, horseback-riding, and signing. Unfortunately the songs, although pleasing, are not noteworthy. Miss Swarthout and for that matter, even John Boles deserves better treatment However, Miss Swarthout is thoroughly charming throughout whether singing or acting, and the movie seems to have recorded her voice with considerable fidelity. Charles Bedford as usual makes a disagreeable villain, and Willie Howard and Herb Williams carry off the straight comedy parts with a great mastery and gust...
...trap all ready for Emperor Haile Selassie waited to be sprung in case he should officially reject The Deal. It might then be eloquently said by Orator Laval that since Ethiopia had flouted and rejected "a peaceful solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially...
With a capacity of two and a half quarts, the crude cup is of silver and devoid of ornament. Its rim has been turned to make a smooth surface for drinking. It rests in a loose silver filigree holder of elaborate workmanship which shows, in a framework of vine leaves, birds and flowers, two figures of the youthful and the mature Christ and ten Apostles and Saints. All the faces are individual portraits. Though there is no way of dating the inner cup, most experts seem to agree that the large outer holder was made not later than the last...
...crossed last week minor Croupier Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula of "honorable" division of Ethiopia "within the framework of the League of Nations." Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, however, is for keeping the ball of sanctions going a while longer and Dictator-Mussolini is all for faster spinning of the wheel by his new war chief. Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
Thus dickering and dealing which continue to take place physically outside the Palace of the Nations were technically brought "within the framework of the League," although only two League States are to go on trying to make "The Deal" with Italy. In Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval's entourage indignation was expressed that Socialist and anti-Fascist officials in France have been doing their best to wreck "The Deal" and embarrass His Majesty's Government by premature disclosures. For M. Laval, it was said, "From now on he will deny every disclosure! Absolute secrecy at this stage is imperative...