Word: meekly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow (TIME, July 12). Last week Mr. Shigemitsu delicately hinted that there had been no Japanese promise to withdraw, and wrathful Comrade Litvinoff, on discovering that the Japanese either had not withdrawn or anyhow were on the disputed islands again within 48 hours, was in no mood to continue meek and conciliatory when news arrived of a bloody Japanese-Soviet clash in the Vinokurka Hills. This affray was on the Soviet-Siberian frontier nearly 1,000 miles east of the disputed Amur River islands. Comrade Litvinoff promptly handed a sharp warning to Ambassador Shigemitsu: "Soviet frontier troops have firm orders...
...their work is done, can seek recreation in a restful change. Lucky are they who have the movies, the theater, the fights, the hockey games and other amusements to take their minds off the troubles of the business day. I speak not of them. I do, however, raise a meek voice for my shipmates and myself, who, when eight bells go and our long watches are over have nothing but a monotonous view of sky and water to greet our eyes. Day after day and night after night we come below to our rooms...
...upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter hours The Good Earth runs, Actress Rainer manages to make her every thought and action as clear...
...BELOVED FRIEND"-Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek-Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination...
...heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying for the Rose Bowl bid on the grounds that it will attract too much publicity of the wrong kind. It is not strange that the football players in football romances get away with one scene, at the most, of studying, but very strange...