Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Havana's Chief of Police is Antonio B. Ainciart. Last week he issued a general order. No mention was made of the police habit of shooting anti-Machadoans on sight under the informal ley de juga, but, ordered Chief Ainciart, "The members of the force must abstain from harsh or insulting language in all cases...
...product of the unfortunate interaction of students with a prepossessing desire to flight valiantly and noisily for any cause whatsoever, meddling Boards with a duty, and a University administration believing in the sledgehammer method of maintaining complacency. There is of course something to be said for the harsh treatment awarded the pacifists. They were so far as can be learned intent only on advertising the fact that they had opinions, without actually caring much about the opinions themselves, They interrupted the public peace of mind without excuse, and made of themselves a spectacle which can only bring disrepute on their...
...start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into the family affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that...
...Comic Artist contains a good deal of excellent prose in its dialog, expresses not a few credible convictions, is honest if somewhat unprofessional. Most reviewers left it with justification for harsh criticism, but without the heart to administer...
...protests by Tessa H. Fluhr and comments by Lillian and Walter Mendes concerning handsome Adolf bring to my mind the fact that the German expression "der scho'ne Adolph" was one formerly used for the second oldest profession (pimp). Present-day usage seems to have mollified this harsh meaning but it is still used oftener in a derisive sense than otherwise...