Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Operas and plays (even Shakespeare's) are cut by B. B. C. as adroitly as possible to a length of 90 minutes, found by experiment to be the ideal maximum length for a broadcast to British listeners...
...ignores plot implications. Conrad Veidt, an expert in menace parts who resembles Alfred Lunt, lets his face alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs in the ballet; the fake Tsar doing fancy needlework, singing the "Volga Boat Song...
...Though the jury recommended leniency, the judge was, under the law, compelled to impose the maximum sentence, leaving the minimum to be fixed by the Territorial Prison Board...
...quit, though they knew that in Lyon's 1930 autumn landslide 19 firemen were killed. Roared Mayor Herriot: "Get back! Back all of you!" When this had no effect, the burly Mayor rushed in and climbed to the top of the ruins, placed himself in the post of maximum danger, bellowed: "Do you all want to be killed? Messieurs, I insist that you get back...
...delight. President Hoover's alternative plan of enforced furloughs staggered through the year was summarily rejected by the House. All salaries of the Federal Reserve Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Farm Board, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Veterans' Administration and Tariff Commission were reduced to an arbitrary $10,000 maximum...