Word: meekness
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...gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan), who can't be separated from his sawed-off polo stick, fans may think they recognize a gentle kidding of 20th Century-Fox's Po-loist-Producer Darryl...
Runner-up in the race was Joseph W. Meek, lawyer, of Tucson, Arizona, where nights are very clear. Mr. Meek observed 3,700 different and individual variable stars, while Eppe Loreta...
...temperate character is Robert Ferdinand Wagner, New York's senior Senator, of manner meek and mild. A man of goodwill, Prussian-born Mr. Wagner knows only one way to get things done: the hard way. Last week he took the Senate floor for his first full-dress defense of the Act he had authored. His cool statistical analysis was more devastating than any amount of emotional argument...
Closest thing to a defiant Senator Borah in Japan's muzzled Diet has been a slim, sharp-faced, sad-eyed little man named Takao Saito. Ever since he returned to Japan from Yale ('04), he has championed lost causes. He looks at once so meek and so dignified that his fellow Dietarians call him Lord Mouse. Last month Lord Mouse startled Japan by standing up in the Diet and roaring like a lion: When will this war end? What does all this high-sounding talk about a New Order mean? For two hours he flayed the Cabinet...
...week at Keith's Memorial. As Guthbert J. Twillie, he teams up with oomphy Mae West in what amounts to a series of bedroom vaudeville acts. There is no plot--which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time...