Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excellent photography, direction, and acting contribute to the general merit of the picture. In its moving panorama, such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, and a certain Mr. Boswell all occupy the stage for one brief moment. The action, it must be admitted, is slow, but never does interest lag. Only two defects can be noticed--a drawn out conclusion tending toward anti-climax, and the uncertain Margaret Mitchell ending...
...strike which bade fair to dry up city after city on the Pacific Coast. The public, however, lulled into lethargy by such gilded phrases as "economic royalists", and "well warmed capitalists in well warmed clubs" that were on the lips of the winning candidates in the last election, was slow to force action, and it was only when Mr. Bridges saw his support slipping away from him, that he became eager to confer on other than the "basic demand" of complete monopoly...
...Slow, almost tortuous, has been the evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which mirrors the nation's growth, was a smart special assistant named Carl McFarland. Attesting the thoroughness of Justice Department researchers are 1,529 references in the 558 pages...
...should see his gift unfold as a genuinely noble experiment, in the pre-Prohibition sense of the expression. Guided by the excellent maxim that "It is far more important that the work of training students be started right than that it be started early", the commission has advocated a slow beginning, with a year set aside for conditioning in cooperation with bureau chiefs, before students are admitted in September 1938. It has thereby avoided the temptation to rash action that so novel and exciting an adventure is bound to offer...
...Victor) Serenade In The Night**1/4 by Roy Fox. Britain again invades our shores with what may be another Ray Noble. Here is a slow tango that needs no Latin to feel its appeal; too bad it is marred by poor lyrics. The reverse, That's Life, I Guess*3/4 by Guy Lombardo is so soft and gooey that your needle ought to stick in the grooves...