Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...Princess Nagako (TIME, Feb. 4) by starting a mustache. Court circles politely refer to it as the Regent's mustache, but so far it consists of only a few silky hairs. Their intense blackness makes them almost visible and the imperial barber is eager for the moment when there will be sufficient foundation for an application...
...imperial barber, eager for the moment to apply...
...such a combination. And, strangely enough, Schumann is best beloved by many for his charming Scenes from Childhood. Whether Mr. Taylor is really a musician who writes criticism, or a critic who writes music, will perhaps be decided only 50 years from now. What is important at the present moment is that he has produced a score that may be fittingly placed on the same shelf with MacDowell's lovely little Marionettes and John Alden Carpenter's Adventures in a Perambulator. These masterpieces of children's music are perhaps America's most substantial achievements in tonal...
...reasoning of a Bolshevik is beyond the understanding of healthy people and nations. Even before the war the Russians were eccentric. At one moment the Russian was the polished European, strongely under the influence of French civilization; and a moment later he was the suave, but savage Oriental from Central Asia. It was this constant struggle between the East and West whose outward manifestations made the Russian so difficult to understand...