Word: kindheartedness
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"Ninety-five percent of all the food consumed ... is rationed," and "even Government officials cannot control themselves at the sight of food." Concluded some observers: "The annual civilian consumption in Russia is less than the annual civilian waste in the United States," and "by comparison, even Germany - as late as...
The only really likable characters in Wagnerian opera are old men. While the youthful Siegfrieds, Tristans and Tannhausers are all muscle-on the stage, mostly stomach-and ego, their elders (Wotan, Hans Sachs, Kurwenal, et al.) are mostly kindhearted, responsible, possessed of human failings and a regard for social obligations...
Guest in the House (adapted by Hagar Wilde & Dale Eunson from a story by Katherine Albert; produced by Stephen & Paul Ames) introduces the most unpleasant stage character of the season, pretty, white-faced Evelyn Heath. A semi-invalid, Evelyn (effectively played by Cinemactress Mary Anderson) comes to visit some kindhearted...
Sinclair's history of National Socialism sometimes sounds like a newspaper written by a kindhearted, turn-of-the-century U.S. Socialist (which Sinclair is). But it works in keen little vignettes-of a devoted block-leader, of a Nazi composer, of a leftish Nazi-and portraits of Hitler, of...
The Beachcomber (Paramount) contains the most unusual cinema hero of the year. Shiftless, insolent, concupiscent Ginger Ted (Charles Laughton) makes himself a nuisance to the kindhearted controleur of the tropical Dutch island where he lives in a disreputable beach shack. He also takes pleasure in insulting a hard-working British...