Word: impaired
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room. But none of its unlikelihoods impair the plot. So finely realized in Good Intentions are handsome photography and acting and directing that the familiar fictions are almost good again. Best shot: a crook who has just come out of Sing Sing walking and talking in his sleep...
...confidence in which they were made to the American delegation in London is broken, it would materially impair the possibility of future successful negotiations between this Government and other nations...
...authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly as the Wet and Catholic Press have been doing...
...even with his brother, who tried to buy her off, and partly for the money. Goulding's dialog has shopworn stretches, but much of it is convincing and subtle. He has varied cinematic formulas enough to make The Devil's Holiday artistically effective, but not enough to impair its popular appeal. It remains a program picture, but a far better one than the average. Best shot: Nancy Carroll's thoughts about her husband revealed to the audience by a slip of the tongue when she is back in a Chicago hotel room trying to get drunk on champagne...
...very excellent method for eliminating students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...