Word: habit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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VICE MINISTER HAS LICKING HABIT...
...Vice Minister Yuzawa of the Home Office on the occasion of his daughter's wedding was so much moved with his delight that he licked the face of the bridegroom to the surprise of the assembly. To speak the truth, Mr. Yuzawa has the curious habit of licking people's faces when he gets drunk...
...Since his appointment as Vice Minister of Home Affairs, his closest friends, much concerned over his notorious habit, advised him to correct the curious habit. Seeing much truth in the advice, Mr. Yuzawa has been refraining from it as much as possible, but when he attends a drinking party and gets drunk, he feels the temptation and is often seen licking his own hands to comfort himself in his melancholy state...
...wounded officer in a Moscow hospital, on telling a nurse with whom he is in love how much he hates war profiteers, learns that she is engaged to one. Starting with this situation, which might lead almost anywhere, I Stand Condemned develops, presumably from sheer force of cinematic habit, into semi-conventional spy melodrama. A complicated web of circumstantial evidence makes it look as if the young officer were guilty of treason. The profiteer gives the testimony that clears...
...opposing: Sir Guy Standing as Max Bernard, a scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry around (Big Brown Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks...