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Word: rapidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critics looking for significance in Anything Goes might write it off as part of the cinema's campaign to cosmopolitanize its audiences. From an entertainment point of view it is rapid, hilarious, and competently directed by Lewis Milestone, whose penchant for playing with trick camera angles probably produces more results with less cost in a musical than in any other form of cinematography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...James Parish, La. in 1838, Henry Hobson Richardson went to Harvard when his stuttering kept him from a West Point appointment. He was the second famed U. S. architect to study his profession in Paris.* Once back in his native country his success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after graft and mismanagement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Richardson v. Richardsonian | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...while the 46,000,000 subjects of King George V in Great Britain and Northern Ireland were in a confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fascist Queen: Eden Trap | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Pearl, in love with a musician who cannot afford to marry her, draws solace from her piano until that, too, is taken from her. Leo Gordon, father of this unhappy brood, is a dreamy designer of pocketbooks whose partner is revealed in rapid succession as a brutal exploiter of his workers, an incipient firebug, an absconder. Half a dozen other characters in Paradise Lost do not get along well either. Nevertheless, Leo Gordon is able to say in a full-length curtain speech that everything is going to be all right now that they have all hit hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 23, 1935 | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...kicking a field goal. Their first touchdown was made by Jack White at the end of the first half, after Pepper Constable seemed to have given the ball to everybody else on the Princeton team. Then in the fourth period, the Tigers opened up, pushed over four touchdowns in rapid succession. Meantime, having thrown four of its passes straight into Princeton's arms, Yale shot an astonishing one into the Princeton end-zone which Larry Kelley, after a long circling run, caught for the score that kept Yale from being whitewashed in a game which ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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