Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emetic for the smug and a warning to everybody. Seldom has such art been concentrated so deliberately with-in four walls as in an anti-war exhibition at Paris' Galerie Billiet last fortnight, called L'Art Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards...
...late John Davison Rockefeller made the country monopoly-conscious in the kerosene days of old Standard Oil Co., the most effective private monopoly ever developed in the U. S. Roosevelt I raised trust-busting to prime issue of his time. In the roaring 1920s the subject was seldom mentioned except by such old-school Progressives as George Norris and William Borah, and even in the first four years of the New Deal trust-busting languished. Meantime the form of Big Business changed from the monopolistic trust to the domination of an industry by a group of potent corporations. Monopoly...
...Seldom in any country does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...
Shoemakers' humor is seldom subtle, but Welles has augmented his troupe with accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...
...Misunderstood, a melodrama with Germany's most popular actress, Henry Porten (Reichsflilmkammer) 1920 The Golem: one sequence only. Directed by the eminent actor Paul Wegener, who also plays the title role (Ufa) 1919 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wieni. Most celebrated of foreign films, it has seldom been shown in its entirety...