Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another Southerner [the undersigned] cannot overlook TIME'S studied efforts to place the Negro on the same mental and social plane with the white, nor TIME'S never-passed-up policy of printing Negro pictures and praising Negro effort to the skies. CHAS. A. GUY Editor and Publisher Lubbock Morning Avalanche Lubbock Evening Journal Lubbock...
...plot of Lowe-McLaglen cinema varies more than its essential pattern: an amiable numbskull outwitted by a smug sophisticate. Cinemaddicts who enjoy listening to the kind of vituperation between Lowe and McLaglen which has remained marketable at the box-office for the past eight years will probably overlook the fact that as detective fiction The Great Hotel Murder is strictly routine...
...against public decency, this league will ask the Legislature to speedily remedy this defect in the law and make it so. It seems to us inconsistent to take a stand for decency on the screen and ignore this latest challenge to the enforcement of decency in reality, We cannot overlook indecency in the substance while condemning it in the shadow...
...meet biased prejudices and petty remarks from everyone, from the youngest freshman to the oldest graduate. He must steer a middle course between those who are continually saying there is too much emphasis on athletics, and those who say there is not enough. He has to be able to overlook most of the unfounded criticism he receives (and naturally criticism is expected); and he has to take whatever good there may be in it and profit...
...cannot tell Cleopatra to sit down twice in an offhand manner unless you really are Caesar. Warren Williams is not Caesar and Cleopatra is not "Egypt" and there is not enough art used to make the audience forget that. If, however, the audience is willing to overlook the irregal appearance of Claudette Colbert and the small town chattiness of Roman teaparties, the picture is a good spectacle. For sheer sensual spectacularity it would be hand to beat the scene where Anthony is first seduced. Food and wine, ballet and flowers with a final crescendo of the music and the solemn...