Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved, but the movie has been assembled quite expertly and intelligently. The cast, with the exception of Adolphe Menjou who is a back slapping high-pressure salesman and quite unsuited to the part, could not have been better. Joan Blondell is a charming...
Although efforts and laws have been made to effect such restrictions, this rather obvious method of making the machine gun robbery more difficult has never successfully been followed up. In spite of the smuggling of such weapons that is bound to result, a concerted drive by government and state officials on checking up sales, licensing, and running down these arms, would not, at this point, be untimely...
...case, isn't it obvious that he would never be sure of getting his money in other cases...
...With obvious pride in its achievements, the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching scores a feeble bull's eye by asserting that one-third of college seniors are intellectually on a par with high school students. The report then dissolves into 90 pages of general discussion of educational ills and suggests the usual generalities by way of improvement. Despite the mass of blundering detail and despite the Foundation's failure to think any of its problems to practical conclusions the report does raise, if not appreciate, the fundamental problems of American education...
...capitalist powers are going to gang up on Russia and engage in a good deal of international eye-gouging and groin-kicking at the expense of the USSR; if Germany and other European states launch an attack upon Russia at the same time that Japan does, it is obvious that the results are going to be pretty sad for the proletariat...