Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until news of the completion of architectural masterpieces is screamed from the headlines of the U. S. press. I count on TIME for as many unprovoked seven-column eulogies on Frank Lloyd Wright and others of his stature as seem necessary to keep readers informed about progress in this phase of our civilization. Congratulations on following and printing the cumulative news that is rarely run as front-page stuff today but tomorrow makes chapter headings in history...
...mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over & over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Benefits Forgot. He couldn't seem to smooth out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights," and rubbed his hands. "Fine," he exulted, "fine. That was the last scene, Bob. You're all through now." White-haired Actor McWade scuffed off the set, sat down...
...this," he said, "is in direct opposition to the theories of the economic planners who seem willing to sacrifice freedom in order to get security, even though Liberty consists of both...
...past several months I have noticed that TIME'S front-cover pictures have been in color-continuously, week after week. . . . Color pictures seem so much more alive than flat black-&-white subjects...
...Greatest Show on Earth (by Vincent Duffey & Irene Alexander; produced by Bonfils & Somnes, Inc.). Playwrights Duffey and Alexander seem unable to decide whether they are satirizing mankind or writing seriously about the anguish of caged beasts. The result is occasionally funny, occasionally mordant, mostly an addled mixture. Partly atoning for the commonplace writing of The Greatest Show on Earth are its ingenious costumes, handsome production, and the acting of Edgar Stehli as Slimy, the serpent. As he slithers among the bears and elephants, hissing in Cockney, inciting Leo the Lion (Anthony Ross) to murder the Keeper, Actor Stehli commits only...