Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, as statesman, Vice President Garner is opposed to much of the New Deal, disagrees often with his Cabinet colleagues. To him this or that Roosevelt scheme may seem "plain damn foolishness" but once it has been adopted as Cabinet policy and he has lost his fight in camera, he dutifully buttons his tight little mouth together and only his closest friends ever hear how he felt about the matter. Personally he is fond of Franklin Roosevelt, takes this attitude: "I'm the silent partner in the firm of Roosevelt & Garner. The Chief does all the talking...
...happened many times before, German foreign policy last week had Herr Hitler in an uncomfortable position. Constant sabre-rattling had driven France and Italy together, brought about the Franco-Russian accord and seemed likely to cost Germany all her recent gains with Poland. Private reports from Premier Göring's secret conversations with France's Laval in Poland showed that now if ever was the time to curry favor by beating a strategic retreat. That it should seem no retreat at all to Nazi ears, Realmleader Hitler shrewdly decided to beat it in as loud a voice...
...Parade's sour skits and migraine melodies might have had some relevancy. At the Theatre Guild, which has a tradition for art rather than garment-loft politics, Parade gives its spectators no pleasure, no precept, but plenty of punishment. Its successive theatrical floats savor unhappily of Union Square, seem as homemade and impotently angry as the bedraggled banners of striking bushelmen...
Estheticians are fond of pointing out that one test of an actress' stature is her ability to seem superior to her roles. If this is true, Miss Bergner's performance in Escape Me Never goes far to justify the encomiums of critics who, after Catherine the Great, called her a cinematic Duse. In other respects, though it is a definite improvement on the wooden play written under the same title by Margaret Kennedy as a sequel to The Constant Nymph and performed by Elisabeth Bergner in London and Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 28). Escape Me Never is a cinematic...
...plot-walloper, Author Slesinger usually goes at the gist of the matter. Some of her stories-like the one in which a blue-stocking old maid, vacationing at a dude ranch, finds the secret of happiness and horseback-riding by letting a cowboy seduce her-seem a little too slick to be true, but most of them have an authentic ring...