Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arena built by Swift & Co. for the second World's Fair. Between engagements Stock usually goes to his house in northern Wisconsin where he walks a bit, mulls over early French literature, tinkers at cabinetmaking, writes music technically sound but emotionally unexciting. Conductor Stock prides himself on his restraint. His men have never seen him lose his temper or break a baton...
Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder...
...picture "Stingaree", new showing at R. K. O. Keith's, is, unlike the fish, innocuously poisonous. Mr. Richard Dix gives his dashingly middle-aged performance, while Miss Irene Dunne "takes everything in her stride". The part of Sir Julian Kent is played by Conway Tearle with refined restraint; there was nothing else he could do with it. Mary Boland enlivens the highly improblematic plot by a too realistic portrayal of the Colonial dowager aspiring to be a prima donna and pictorial shots of sheep grazing and the Stingaree galloping into the night add to the effect. The remainder...
...returns to England after the War, neither his job nor his wife are awaiting him. But his bulldog tenacity makes him fight through the horrors of scrubbing floors and carrying trunks with one purpose: that of giving his son the things which he has missed in life. Either self-restraint or a more blatant heroic martyrdom will aid him in accomplishing his purpose. He chooses the former methods and thus avoids outbursts of Victorian sweetness which would destroy the strength of the picture...
...silver contracts, with which they are speculating or hope to speculate soon. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthau, has expressed his suspicion, "informally," according to one report, that some of the supporters of the movement are not altogether "disinterested" in their activities. (Mr. Morgenthau displays a commendable restraint of phrase in these days of flaming crescendi of indignation). The newspapers, with their usual acuity of perception, have reached the same conclusion, which must be extremely gratifying to Mr. Morgenthau...