Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good omen of a longer, rougher role. Mrs. L. C. Jacks...
Inside the Senate, 75-year-old Joseph Caillaux, whom Leftists call "the Cabinet Killer," continued to play his dominant role, icily bemonocled. The Senate, while the crowd howled outside, voted credits for the entertainment of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their State visit to France this coming June. As the dinner hour approached the mob scurried home. Inflammatory posters screeched from Paris hoardings meanwhile, appeals to the Socialists, the Communists and the Anarchists to "Rise against this handful of stony-hearted old men, ensconced in their Senatorial Bastille...
...Line included such amiable judgments as that the new, incredibly ornate and lugubrious Roxy Theatre was "a truly fine expression of what a place of entertainment should be." In the autumn of 1932 Lewis Mumford took over The Sky Line and speedily transformed it into its present role of the most perceptive, severe and expert column of architectural criticism in the U. S. Manhattan architects, conscious of having blundered or faked, have learned that if nobody else will discover it, Critic Mumford probably will...
...Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich. In practical dealings with Nazis no German prelate is more adroit than the noble Bishop of Münster, the Most Rev. Clemens August Count von Galen. Example: When Bishop Galen lately preached in his cathedral on the Church's role in the education of youth, a uniformed Nazi leaped up to shout: "How can anybody talk about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child...
...showed only a series of moods-that time-honored way of passing the buck about the dark, difficult Russian soul. Actor Lunt performed admirably as Trigorin, Actress Fontanne badly as Irina. She made the Russian woman a ham actress in a farce, displayed a rather alarming affinity for the role...