Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletin board the progress and the errors of the five contestants were scored up by officials. The pace was terrific. In a few minutes they began to sweat like wrestlers. They were typing from the Alchemy of Time, a treatise on the early history of Minnesota...
...plot, so intricate that a good deal of the interest lies in following Author Mclntyre's ingenious unwinding of the threads, moves at the pace of popcorn popping over a hot fire. When Pete hid in a secluded rooming house, he found another fugitive there. This pickpocket, when caught with a roll of stolen bills, dropped it in Pete's lap. When he returned for it, after the police released him, Pete poked him in the nose, kept the money. He thereby added another enemy to the horde interested in seeing him captured. When Pete found favor...
Screenwriters Charles Brackett and Edwin Knopf permit their gusto in these complications to slow up the story, but occasional lapses from pace and over-energetic mugging on the part of the Pett family are not serious faults. Best of the scenes is the one in which Jim scrapes acquaintance with the heroine by apologizing for the fumbling attempts of an amiably drunken friend (Robert Benchley) to do likewise...
...baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...
...great corn states of Iowa and Illinois, the temperature rose to 115° and in the grain pit corn kept pace, next day mounting a full 4? to $1.16 a bu. This put democratic corn ahead of aristocratic wheat ($1.14 a bushel) for the first time in six years. Next day September-delivery corn rose 3!^ to $1.igf, a price unequaled since the great days when War-starved Europe bought all the U. S. grain it could get. and cash corn sold...