Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think you ought to know that you got off on the wrong foot on your Cleveland Eucharistic Congress story (TIME, Sept. 30). Whatever your good intentions were, from this editorial desk I have heard complaints about it from all over the U. S., and they seem to be growing in volume. Many readers of your paper, spontaneously and without any collusion, saw in the story many a sly dig against the Church and its personalities. You see, once it gets into people's minds that you have no respect for anything, they see in all of your airy remarks...
Mutiny on the Bounty (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) exhibits more strikingly than any previous cinema in which he has appeared the peculiar capacity of Actor Charles Laughton to seem created by providential dispensation in the identical likeness of whomever he undertakes to impersonate. Actor Laughton is currently in London preparing to appear in an English version of Cyrano de Bergerac. To perfect his understanding of the play, he learned it by heart in French and had up to last week written out twelve copies by memory. Before making Mutiny on the Bounty he went to London, said to Gieves, Bond Street...
...amazing record, was not designed for neat conversion into a scenario. Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours which it lasts seem as interminable as Bligh's voyage in the open boat must have seemed to its occupants. The narrative, which skips the saga of Pitcairn's Island entirely for Tahiti love interest, still contains enough material for at least three films. These faults are indigenous to the historic material...
...Terminate your relations tactfully with patients who seem contentious or litigious...
House librarians should apply the same solution to their problem of bookmarking. So far they seem not even to have used idle threats, far less to have taken action to protect their meek charges...