Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they hated; they knocked him down, and standing round as he lay writhing in the dust, stoned him until his body was a bloody pulp...
...living in a two-room apartment on tree-shaded America Avenue in Baton Rouge. Charming, quiet, well-liked, she cooks, sews, collects old records and music, reads medieval documents, and modern poetry. Her slow writing bothers her not at all: "There are too many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable...
...Taxes that slow up business must not be revised if doing so means a loss of revenue. He complained that the press had not made clear his insistence on that point...
...just reviewer prefers to do his track work outdoors, but that is pure laziness, son, pure laziness. I have but one criticism of the dancing "bugs" whom I have seen: they all ought to go up to the Savoy in New York and take a few lessons in real slow, relaxed shagging. Just as most white swing bands play mostly fast, stiff music while calling it swing, so do the jitterbugs dance out of time, pressing the beat so much that they can't same time and watch the crowd shag to easy tempos. They just rock along, everybody taking...
...minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis Barrault)--are skillfully portrayed. Only on one occasion, when the two principal women engage in that lush sentimentality so often employed to resolve a triangle plot, does the pace become slow; and the ending, tragic and impelling in the vein of the whole film, again revolves about Francoise and leaves a well unified impression in the mind of the delighted spectator...