Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically the Vishinsky ruling did not seem last week to cramp the electioneering style of the Russian clergy. It appeared from stories in the Soviet press that nearly all the registered religious groups have been smart enough not to attempt to nominate a priest or bishop but are working to advance the interests of persons, some even Communists, who for one reason or another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week...
This cogent and moving episode absorbs about an hour of film. For the next hour Screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein, Salka Viertel and S. N. Behrman seem undecided what to do for story matter. They fall back on the facts taught in schools about their hero's life. Napoleon divorces Josephine (out of camera range). He arranges to wed Habsburg Marie Louise. Marie Walewska is disgusted. Says she: "'The savior of Europe has become a son-in-law." Not until after the retreat from Moscow does Marie have much more to do with the Emperor, except for bearing...
...realization of the dreams of President Conant and the men who are in charge of "selling" the extra-curricular study of our nation's history and culture to the undergraduate body. Yesterday the list of thirty candidates for the first examination was completed, and though thirty may not seem a large number out of an undergraduate group of over three thousand, the University should feel encouraged in finding thirty men who have enough initiative over and above that spent on their regular courses and examinations to submit to an extra, special set of exams, all for the love...
...They all seem to be working hard," he commented, "and they're taking the exercises seriously." Petersen said that he couldn't tell yet what kind of material he has on band. "Just wait till December," he grinned...
...Bergren, now Bergen, would do with the Great Sphinx of Egypt. He might get a peep of personality out of the Great Silent One, provided he could give it a monocle and scarlet Mephistophelian lips. At the age of 13, quite by accident. Bergen had already made his voice seem to come from halfway down the block from where he stood...