Word: slavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenery could have been done by Painter Adolf Hitler suddenly turned Cubist; the dialogue could have been written by a slightly tipsy Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. All in all, the Russian act that led up to its invasion of Finland last week was a weird parody, rather than a Slavish plagiarism, of Nazi methods...
...rested on solid ground it was based on expectation of Government action. Imminent repeal of taxes on capital gains and undistributed profits entitle stocks to enjoy a modest two or three day rally. But for the first time in nearly a year the market ceased to be a slavish follower of production. Time was when the market presumed to anticipate changing trends in production three to six months in advance. In June 1938 the market anticipated production by only a few weeks. Last November the market and production peaked about the same time, then fell together. In April the market...
Monomark is a ludicrous egocentric who eats little but raw onions and oatmeal, is surrounded by slavish sycophants who toady to his ignorant misconceptions, abuses his distracted underlings and usually triumphs by some absurdly fortuitous accident. In 1930 Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian coronation. Waugh repaid him with a lampooning in Black Mischief. Later Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian war. Waugh bladdered him again in Scoop...
Gangway (Gaumont-British) is the third British musical in little more than a year to tackle the task of making Jessie Matthews as popular in the U. S. as she is in England. A slavish imitation of the current Hollywood musical comedy formula, Gangway sometimes comes close to clicking, gives one more indication that British cinema can as yet boast few native screen writers within trailing distance of Hollywood's best, but that British producers are still trying to pick up the trail...
...Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy to those who woo her with too slavish knees...