Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most unfortunate, then, that he plunged directly from the enlargement of federal powers to a scorching indictment of the judiciary. The transition was most inappropriate when he took the NRA--one measure ruled out unanimously by the Supreme Court--as his starting point. It would seem to be a jealous cleaving to hasty, ill-advised past action and all its implications. Now the time is ripe for its antithesis, carefully, intelligently, and constitutionally planned reform. If the federal government cannot find a present basis for change--and all avenues are not yet closed--it can propose...
...custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared on points, Waif Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth...
...attractions as a cinema capital, it suffers from a torpor so pronounced that U. S. audiences are likely to suspect that the murdered leading lady is not really dead but dozing. Good shot: Dolores Del Rio-whose next U. S. picture will be Devil's Playground-in a jealous rage...
...Horner (Roger Livesey) pretends to be emasculated because his reputation has become such that he is hard put to circumvent the vigilance of jealous husbands. This ruse works well enough in the case of Sir Jasper Fidget, who is only too glad to have such an apparently harmless gallant squire his wife around town, frequent her boudoir. But Mr. Pinchwife, who has brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally...
...Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista) fluttering about in round-eyed adulation. Minna - jealous, nagging, nerve-fraying epitome of an artist's devoted wife - translates her dislike of the Wesendonck affair into criticism of Tristan: "Nothing happens in it from beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love each other." She intercepts a love letter, stirs...