Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...
...Francesco Saverio Nitti has said: "After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood for the children whose poor little hands had been cut off. He was unable to discover one. Mr. Lloyd George and myself, when at the head of the Italian Government, carried on extensive investigations as to the truth of these horrible accusations, some of which, at least, were told specifically as to names and places. Every case investigated proved to be a myth...
Feet First (Paramount). To see Harold Lloyd hanging by his toes and fingernails, in attitudes of comic agony and terror, to the abutments of an office building above a busy city street is one of the most exciting things in the modern cinema. It is not, of course, humor that makes crowds roar and shriek as they watch him, but his antics inspire a contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm just as humor does, with the same vocal results. The skyscraper episodes in Feet First are more elaborate than in Safety Last, which he made seven years ago; there...
...titled Englishwoman whose name happens to be the same as that of a racehorse with which he is familiar. There is a gag with fishcakes and a dog, and a gag with an exploding cigar. Each one is carefully constructed, a little mechanical, but irresistible and in the best Lloyd manner. The theme-line is "Madame, your instep is far too beautiful to be spoiled by a short-vamp shoe." Feet First takes rank with the best Lloyd shows?Speedy, Safety Last, The Freshman, Welcome Danger...
...Harold Lloyd leases his studios and has a complete staff of film-makers on his payroll. Paramount merely distributes his films. It took him four months to make the skyscraper shots in Feet First. Nobody doubles for him in high places. He uses fewer twin-exposure shots than most skeptics would suppose. He is an athletic young man and keeps himself in shape on the private golf course, tennis courts, handball courts, and in the gymnasium of his expansive house. When he is making a climbing comedy his only protection is a platform with mattresses on it, built out from...