Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevalence of this potential nihilistic state of mind is most clearly indicated by our surges of emotionalism since 1915. Also Americans are particularly bloodthirsty. Did we not set the world pace for blood letting in our own Civil...
...second production of the season, Alan Gray Holmes' stock company of Boston is hitting the pace. With Erford Gage as its guiding genius, the company has put on a rousing production of Kaufman-Ferber's play, "The Royal Family." By taking the cream of the dramatic crop in the past decade, Mr. Holmes has made a wise move, for the pep of the script carries the play along when the cast has an occasional low moment...
...seized them and gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle...
...gathered around them an imposing array of writers and actors, and produced one of the best pictures of the year. The flamboyance of Laughton and the high-strung tension of Hitchcock direction complement each other perfectly. The result is high adventure worthy of Dumas combined with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress, it is hard to imagine her as a big-time all-around actress,--but then, you never...
...motion picture method, by projecting phrases across the screen according to the movements and pauses of the eyes of a skilled reader, the poor reader is made to pace his eyes so as to acquire the eye movements of the superior reader. The rate of projection of the phrases upon the screen is gradually increased, always keeping just a little ahead of the reader...