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Word: restraint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This is a technique which he acquired before the War when, as one of the villains in the Paris Grand Guignol, he used to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Dominion Trade & Industry Commission Act the Court gave piecemeal approval. Unanimously it held invalid the Commission's right to exempt from prosecution combines in restraint of trade, the issuance of a Canadian trademark to signify a product's compliance with Commission standards. The section of the Commission's functions which the Court held valid was again concerned with the prevention of unfair trade practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Decisions on Deal | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Fear of the outbreaks becoming a general strike, attended by violence and suffering, seems temporarily abated, but self-restraint is never a long-enduring phenomenon of such disruptions of economic and political life. It is, therefore, easy to understand why Premier Blum has promised everything to the discontented. He may, perhaps, be acquitted of expediency, but there were but two courses open to him. One--repression--was unthinkable since he is a man of strict Socialist principles and depends almost entirely on Leftist support. The only other alternative, which he took, was an immediate guarantee that he would clear away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. BLUM AND THE "WORKERS" | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...roles Dennis King and Edith Barrett achieve performances of truly outstanding skill. Mr. King leads a romantically vital touch to his Parnell which makes the utter devotion of Mrs. O'Shea and the Irish Party thoroughly credible. Miss Barrett has a most appealing presence and performs with a sympathetic restraint which quite overbalance her slightly Philadelphia acoant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/3/1936 | See Source »

...melodramatics of the plot are handled with restraint and taste: exceptionally well done is the scene in which Julie's (Helen Morgan) husband discovers that she has negro blood, following her exposure by the malicious Pete. One of the best shots occurs when Ravenal sings "Only Make Believe" to his small daughter as he is about to desert her and Magnolia. This movie should not be missed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: *The Moviegoer* | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

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