Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian cinematography, however, even shortcomings have merit, since they somehow manage to produce a sort of spontaneous, newsreel authenticity. Never before approximated for sheer credibility is Director E. Dzigan's uncanny recreation of a minor infantry rush, which supplies the picture's climax about an hour before it is due. The men flop at the first signs of fire, try to scratch up a few handfuls of earth to hide behind, stare at each other to see who will have nerve enough to follow the commander forward, stumble to their feet, start to run and, the lust...
...November I bet our sales-manager we'd break even on the venture within 14 months, and at lunch today volunteered to increase that bet. The Godowsky piano arrangements were published in "the same way: not as a six-weeks' bestseller, but as a work which through sheer merit and a halfway decent publishing job would sooner or later make its way into the black keys-I mean figures. I would appreciate your printing this little manifesto for two reasons: 1) Lest Papa Godowsky (who reads TIME) misinterpret our motive. 2) Lest the thousands of composers among your...
...London of such a British White Paper as this forced observers to surmise that either Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Premier Benito Mussolini have secretly almost settled their differences about Ethiopia, or else that the whole project of having British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead you to pray for blessings upon...
...little legs suddenly twinkled into the first steps of a mazurka. Then she swung into a Lutz jump, a Jackson-Haynes spin, glided backward the length of the rink in a fadeaway stop. To lay observers, this brief turn was not remarkable. For experts it was an exercise in sheer genius, the climax of the evening. Cheering wildly, they demanded two encores...
...sheer Geneva habit a pretense was indulged in that some of the sessions were the Council, some of them were the plenipotentiaries of the Locarno Powers, excepting Germany (i. e., Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and some were the League Sanctions Committee. Yet the same statesmen turned up again & again. An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers...