Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of the ballots were cast in favor of one of the Republican candidates for the Presidency. All these men have opposed the action of the present administration in the Federal concentration of power. This week there were only 157 state-power advocates, while 59 voters desired a medium course...
...fact that the University would act as a medium between the donor and the selected student does not imply credence in the political beliefs of Germany any more than the granting of a Harvard scholarship to a resident of Alabama implies support of Negro suppression in southern United States. And the student's acceptance of the scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very...
...rich veins of screen material which deserve to be mined by able writers. The Milky Way (Paramount). No. 2 comedian of silent pictures, almost as rich and famed as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd reacted differently when talkies arrived. While Chaplin, with the egoism permissible to genius, defied the new medium, Lloyd conscientiously set out to adapt himself to it. His method was cautious: while retaining the outlines of the comic character with which his admirers had been pleased in silent pictures, he chose stories which depended less exclusively on the efforts of the star, placed part of the burden...
...these high-sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...
...Dear Old Darling" is the perfect medium for the bland, effervescent personality of the American stage actor, George M. Cohan. Besides that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...