Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked " double-checked invitations and guests as they had arrived. Mrs. Roosevelt and the Boettigers were snug in the executive gallery. The diplomatic corps was notably minus the Japanese and Italian envoys...
...requires a system of eight boards. Members of the American Astronomical Society, convened in Princeton last week, relaxed from their more abstruse preoccupations with a set of 14 "true-or-false" questions cooked up by a colleague. Scoring was on the basis of plus one for a correct answer, minus two for a wrong one. Highest score: 8. Sample questions...
Most people who take their theatre-going seriously managed to see Helen Hayes in Mary of Scotland, one of the dramatic events of 1934. Memorable sequence in that play was the hapless Scottish queen's leave-taking from her lover Bothwell (Philip Merivale). Minus swords and capes to heighten the drama, Miss Hayes as the dumpy little royal matron of Victoria Regina manages to pack an astonishing amount of tragic power into her dismay at Albert's fatal chill...
...treat her as a Federal operative must treat any subject under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...
...Brent) of a friend of the psychiatrist. After some involved negotiations, she accompanies Brent on his vacation at a mountain snuggery, the theory of all concerned being that in her ugly make-up the cinemactress would be safe with any man. Soon after Brent has seen her not only minus the disguise but minus most of her clothing. Miss Rogers begins to cure herself. Stung by Brent's superciliousness toward actresses, she takes him to see one of her pictures in a village cinema, makes an enthusiastic personal appearance before she realizes her phobia is gone. Remarkable sight: Miss...