Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with fine features, a sensitive mouth and engaging gaucheries. He has made uneven work of his part; at moments he achieves just the right mixture of weakness and fineness to play the son that Seth is ashamed of. Mr. Huston makes a going concern of a patchy plot by his forthright vitality...
...from Spanish authorities at San Se bastian, French police had raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped...
Amid furor Leader Adolf Hitler blandly disclaimed responsibility for what his Fascists might be thinking or plotting in Hesse. The attitude of the Attorney General seemed to make it possible for them to plot, with a little ingenuity and camouflage, whatever they please anywhere in Germany without committing treason...
...plot involves the loss of the winning ticket in a lottery; and the frantic search through most of Paris for this bit of paper leads to many pleasant ramifications. Especially funny is the burlesque of grand opera, showing that the opera stages of France are burdened with no less clumsy pachyderms masquerading as young lovers, than...
Rene Clair, director of the film "Le Million," also supervised the production of "Sous les Toits de Paris," and is noted for his subordination of dialogue to pantomine. The plot of the film is chiefly that of a lost lottery ticket and of the frantic efforts to recover...