Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a day in the history of Stillman Infirmary when students hated to go there because they thought they were not treated right by the staff: the doctors were unpopular for their medicines, the nurses for their manner of approach. Indeed the nurses were considered tyrannical, nothing short of petty martinettes...
Purporting to be a detective picture in the modern manner, the film soon proves itself nothing better than the old style "cops and robber" stuff. Lloyd Nolan poses as the smart reporter who gets in the way of Akim Tamiroff, gambler and suitor for the heart of the beautiful Claire...
Adding its support to the program in a faltering and unconvincing manner "Melody for Two" which stars the golden voiced James Melton, turns out to be as unsatisfactory as the feature picture. With Patricia Ellis as his running mate, Melton sings and swings his way from the top of the heap to the bottom and all the way back again...
Later these same ships fought most valiantly but unavailingly against the superior force of the American Fleet, under the command of that gallant and chivalrous Spanish gentleman and brilliant officer Admiral Cervera, who justly gave merited praise to the handsome manner in which Lieutenant Hobson executed a most difficult and hazardous maneuver, under which the unarmed, frail collier was subjected to what was probably the heaviest fire ever concentrated upon a single ship, before or since...
...lack in poise. She is Wynn Murray and hails from the church choirs of Scranton, Pa. Miss Murray is the Kate Smith type, weighs some 150 lb. and, well into Act I, is the first one to get Babes In Arms off the ground when, with a pleasantly sophisticated manner, she croons of her home Way Out West On West End Avenue...