Word: patricianism
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Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
During the whole voyage tall, patrician, spear-bearded Captain Francesco Tarabotto of the Rex snatched scarcely two hours sleep out of each 24, constantly paced the bridge. Below decks the four turbines of 130,000 rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed...
...ratchet-voiced tomboy whenever possible. It is an extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet feminine charm, for quiet sincere acting, and self-effacing hard work. To pick her for the leading light of the Amazonian younger...
...their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent to a jail for a crime that she committed long before. Cinema stories by Anita Loos, of which this...
...care to talk about my ancestry because that is of the past." But her past (which includes English private tutors, a stage debut with an Oxford repertory company, authorship of three published novels) asserts itself in the Landi presence. Like Ruth Chatterton, Elissa Landi is violently patrician at all times and particularly so when she tries to be the creature of her instincts. This is a minor flaw in an otherwise pleasantly superficial parlor comedy, with modernistic interiors...