Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartman Woodin, cheery but inactive, has not yet qualified for a similar role in the Roosevelt era. Nor have the new heads of the State, Justice, War, Navy Agriculture, Commerce or Interior departments yet achieved historic stature. The first woman Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins (Wilson) has been receiving quiet plaudits ever since her first hour in office as the most human, humane and intelligent incumbent since her post was founded in 1913. But the first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed last week upon another Cabinet member. In a speech at Newburgh, N. Y., Second...
...Congressional comeback since the debacle of 1912. But politics do not sway his decisions. By law he holds office for 15 years, can be removed only by joint resolution of Congress or impeachment, is ineligible for reappointment. Personally affable, with eyes of merry blue, he speaks in a slow, quiet voice. Iowa-born, he was educated in Nebraska, practiced law there. Washington-polished, he plays golf in the 80's at the Congressional Club. Observers have long anticipated a collision between Comptroller McCarl and the NRA. Last week that collision seemed imminent. Upon the Comptroller's desk arrived...
...saying in her Parkavian voice how much she loves him. Just when it looks as though Miss Bennett, like Greta Garbo in Mata Hari and Marlene Dietrich in Dishonored, will receive attention from a firing squad, an assistant spy shoots the Viennese secret agent severely enough to keep him quiet till the War is over. After Tonight is a slow and thoroughly affected picture, but it contains as much talk about codes as any current editorial page and this helps give it the proper hocus-pocus atmosphere. Good shot: the mutual surprise of Miss Bennett and Gilbert Roland when they...
...based on a gentle, knowing honesty, made important his telling of that story-which Janet Gaynor has been unconsciously burlesquing in most of her later pictures and which even Director Borzage, except in Street Angel, had never seriously rivaled till last week. Man's Castle, with its quiet climaxes and Loretta Young's superlatively sensitive acting, is a picture very nearly as good as Seventh Heaven. Take a Chance (Paramount) exhibits more of the appalling difficulties which, in the cinema, surround any attempt to produce a musical comedy. Four raffish members of an itinerant carnival (James Dunn, Lillian...
Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor's Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with...