Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayors and others together to start the CWA he cut the mayor of Duluth short after two sentences by asking whether he was making a speech or asking a question. When the mayor of Chicago asked a question with a political implication he stopped him with the remark that the Century of Progress must be over if Chicago was asking for help. When the mayor of Seattle wanted to know whether he had to go home to make an application for a project Mr. Hopkins told him that, for all he cared, the mayor could meet the state director...
...stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with no place to burst." But with adroit acting, shrewd direction, ingratiating sets, the whole comes out a packet of high entertainment...
...went through the motions of considering the law. Said Congressman Snell, Republican leader in the House: "About 10% of the members know what effect this gold bill will have and not more than 5% can make an intelligent statement in regard to it." No one in Washington questioned his remark except possibly as an exaggeration of Congressional understanding...
...Lindley that Franklin Roosevelt had a liberal political philosophy before he met his brains trust but memories of the vacillating treatment of Tammany, the time required to make up his mind about issues like unemployment insurance, and other aspects of the Albany days make us realize that the quoted remark of Walter Lippmann about a pleasant gentleman who had no important qualifications for the Presidency was not completely wrong then. Presidential treatments of last June's compromise on veteran's cuts and of the abandonment of the tariff agreement bill, as well as the abdication of the vital tax issue...
There is not much to say about either cast or direction other than to remark that both are excellent. Miss Watson and Mr. Douglas are more than adequate and Mr. O'Malley and Miss Ryan are very good indeed. To Miss Ruth Weston, however, the major honors must be awarded, for a delicate interpretation of a part which might easily have been badly bungled. Mr. Barratt is to be congratulated on two particularly fine sets...