Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even when its stately Oriental pace tires, which it does particularly in the beginning of Act III, Actress Alia Nazimova as OLan commands respectful attention. It is her play. She it is who makes Wang Lung (Claude Rains) buy his first bit of land. Although Wang grows rich and soft as she grows sick and old, it is her death which brings Wang back to the good earth of his and her fore fathers...
...other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before they part at San Francisco, they gaily engage to meet on New Year's Eve at Agua Caliente. A quiet, sharp, romantic tragedy. One Way Passage was directed with the sense of pace and compression it required by Tay Garnett...
...evident," said Professor Hopper in summing up the Russian situation, "that the killing pace set by the Bolsheviks in their attempt to overtake and outstrip capitalist countries has proved too fast at least during a world depression. It may be that planning the entire life of a vast country is not yet within the capacity of man. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks will most likely carry on, zigzagging back to their program as circumstances permit...
Once more the Nipponese come trooping out of Titipu; the Land of the Rising Sun goes Topsy-Turvy, and Victorian England "trips in Liberty silks." It is a show done to the Mikado's taste, with all the pace and spirit that one could wish...
...public works-a provision of the 1932 Relief Act which the White House bitterly opposed. Purpose: to make more jobs. The President announced that this fiscal year the Government will spend more than $750,000,000 on construction jobs to provide employment, "more than double the normal pace." ¶Next day President Hoover announced that he expected to whittle not less than $500,000,000 out of the 1934 budget. Said he: "A part of this can be accomplished in reduction of construction activities. . . . Such expenditures will be less neces sary for employment purposes after June of next year." Herbert...