Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Foreign Office, suavest in Europe, Correspondent Knickerbocker's cables were called a "fantasy." Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, either caught red-handed or with a blissfully clear conscience, had just made a most gracious gesture toward Italy. He had announced that work on the new war boats laid down in the French naval program will be suspended for six months. In Italy the Fascist press took its friendliest tone toward France in weeks, not forgetting to hail M. Briand's announcement as a great diplomatic victory for // Duce...
...unusual happened and Holiday still elucidates, with some truth and not too much solemnity, a civilized predicament. Mary Astor is properly severe and gracious as Julia. Ann Harding, as her little sister Linda, is less mannered and more attractive than was Hope Williams on the stage. Robert Ames grins and frowns as Johnny Case. The whimsicality of Edward Everett Horton, impersonating Linda's friend Nick Potter, sometimes threatens to grow stubborn, but he finds the proper gestures for Playwright Barry's famed success-story monolog, "How I Invented the Bottle...
...Dewar, nephew and heir of whiskey's Baron Dewar whose title died with him (TIME, April 21). In cinema theatres throughout Britain the flashed news that "their Majesties were standing a very short distance from where the lightning struck" led to much fervent singing of "God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King...
...Commission had been influenced by St. Gandhi's spectacular campaign for independence (TIME, Jan. 6, et seq.). They found Sir John's own characteristic answer in his last section-section 369 of Part Twelve, the one ending, "All of which we submit for Your Majesty's gracious consideration." It opens magnificently thus...
Bride of the Regiment (First National). Somehow music and light, gracious playing gave that stilted musical comedy, The Lady in Ermine, a charm as a stage production which it has lost in cinema. Better direction might have made acceptable the earnest efforts of the large and mediocre cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical...