Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelvet: "the charming Roosevel-vet manner...
Mack and Groves had a new idea for Phoenix. Instead of buying up good investments at bargain prices in the manner of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., they would buy up ailing or bankrupt industries cheap, cure them and sell them high. Celotex looked good to them and in 1934 they acquired common stock control...
...Those who missed the original "Topper" should neglect their education no longer, but whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being smoked in thin air and Roland Young reacting violently to invisible kicks. There are belly laughs a-plenty in the approved Hal Roach manner. Those who have been "Topper" may find that the humor of trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone...
...believe that the dictators cannot live forever and that anyhow Europe had best be left to take care of itself-they want a big stick just in case, and 2) those who want to stand up on top of the barricade, shake the stick in such an unequivocal manner that the dictators will mend their ways...
...ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion's when Poland is mentioned...