Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...French firing squad, for the second time within a month, destroyed a spy, this time a German gardener at Vendenheim near Strasbourg, who muttered: "I did not know it was so serious...
...wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...
...Time For Comedy Behrman (perhaps transferring his own qualms) treats of a writer of comedies who wonders whether he shouldn't be more serious-minded. This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...
...Judith Traherne, Bette Davis is a horsy Long Island heiress with a stable of steeplechasers and a tongue like a riding crop, which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more serious cause. The surgeon knows that every day brings her closer to death. Before death comes, on a sunny day at his Vermont farm, Judith knows too, but is convinced that the victory has been hers...