Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). This version of Alice Hegan Rice's homely novel of the 1890's provides a cinema debut for able Actress Pauline Lord (Anna Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies...
...PROUD AND THE MEEK-Jules Romains-Knopf ($2.50). Slowly but surely Jules Romains is building his skyscraper novel of modern Paris. Men of Good Will. Last week U. S. gazers saw the third floor finished. Though it is still too soon to judge the architecture of the building, critics had already divided in their previews: some called it superb, others jerry-built. Men-in-the-street, content merely to watch the structure go up, told themselves it was beginning to look more like the real thing. Readers of the first two volumes (Men of Good Will, Passion's Pilgrims...
Refusing to be catalogued and classified as "a nice lot and bright," "meek," "Bohemian," "hearty and robust," and "swanky," the college girls retort with epithets and descriptions frank enough to disturb the most indifferent men. How disillusioned and perplexed must be the Freshmen who discovers a stupid Radcliffe lass or a Bohemian Wellesleyian. What tragedy and grief to find the Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable...
...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...
...Leader's" shadow, Reichsbischof Müller jammed his entire program through the Synod by a vote of 42 to 12. The meek churchmen even abolished their Church flag: a purple cross on a white field. To correspondents the triumphant Reichsbischof cried: "We must now build for our Leader a really strong Church...