Word: guilelessly
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...sighed. Two tiny spring flowers, one white, one lavender, peeped from the lapel of his flowing black coat. His broad jowls were momentarily at rest, his eyebrows arched like innocent cupid's bows. Under subpoena by the Truman Committee, John Lewis had appeared gladly. There he sat, as guileless and patient as a volcano. He was ready to explain his threat of a coal strike...
...quality of men and events as to use the adjectives "potent" and "sturdy" in this connection without its tongue in its cheek? Does TIME really not know that Rabbi Wolsey and his fellows represent a negligible minority within our honorably and stanchly Zionist Reform rabbinate? Is TIME so guileless that it does not recognize the intellectual quality of Rabbi Goldenson's words: "Zionists and the pleaders for a Jewish Army indirectly play into the hands of the anti-Semites?" Is TIME unaware of the century and a quarter of Jewish history during which Western Jewry did everything...
...handles Sister Ruth's wit & wisdom with the neat feeling for bias on which she tailors her comic flair. Newcomer Janet Blair, as Sister Eileen, is as fetching as a soda-fountain special at the end of a hot day. Male cinemaddicts will regard her as so much guileless natural force disguised in sprigged muslin. Her prototype, Eileen McKenney, was killed (with her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West) in an auto crash (TIME...
Saboteur (Frank Lloyd; Universal) is one hour and 45 minutes of almost simon-pure melodrama from the hand of the master: bejowled, Buddha-ball Director Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, etc.), whose guileless countenance and cherubic demeanor mask a talent for scaring hell out of cinema audiences...
...present picture, for there is something too agonizingly real about the military genius of the Germans in the past three years to make them effective butts for farcical humor. Actually, in all recent war films, Hollywood has shown a propensity to have the Gestapo foiled by the most guileless and pure of people in "Paris Calling," "Man Hunt." "The Great Dictator," and so on. None of these plots had an adult approach to the complicated processes which will lead us to victory. Little wonder, then, that the average American, fed on such treacle, believes that the Germans will crack when...