Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
...Philadelphia that houses the Barnes Foundation is surrounded by an eight-foot iron fence, guarded by savage dogs. Only specially invited guests may view his pictures, and not a few of them have been bodily ejected from the building when their appreciation of what they were shown did not seem to be sufficiently lively...
...Worry Successfully contains a great deal of helpful advice that is almost certain to drive into a frenzy anyone worried about anything more serious than a bad cold or a ticket for overtime parking. It also contains some practical observations on how to sleep, instructions in physical exercises that seem as likely to break a patient's back as make him relax, shrewd words on how to detect bad influences, how to keep your wife from reading in bed, how to locate habit-patterns that lead to incorrect appraisals of a bad situation, how to detect inhibitions that block...
...that Mr. Ickes cannot remember that President Roosevelt was nominated for the Presidency at Chicago in 1932 with the direct help of the Hearst delegates from Hearst's own State of California. . . . The sum of the matter would seem to be that Mr. Hearst is one of our best pickers of Presidential winners and one of the least assertive controllers of Presidents...
...idealistic love of Peggy (Joan Crawford) for Senator John Randolph (Melvyn Douglas); her marriage to Eaton (Franchot Tone); and her single-minded devotion to President Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value. Surrounded by youthful matinee idols who seem a shade too chipper in the roles of mature statesmen, Lionel Barrymore grunts, glares and snuffles to fine effect. Equally sure-fire is Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Rachel Jackson, who, about to expire of the miseries, charges Peggy with seeing that the President remembers...