Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That submarines be abolished (proposed by the U. S. and Britain with the covert hostility of Japan and other nations). Realistic, the Japanese attitude was to soft-soap everyone and let the Conference drag on for as long as the white men liked?months, years, or an even longer period which seemed to be envisioned by Japanese Delegate Tsuneo Matsudaira (the father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince) in these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel...
Punctually the curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
...delicate, well brought-up little boy by Desidevaerio. The charm of this master's busts of children is almost too evanescent a thing to describe in words. One will want to look at this little head from every angle to enjoy the play of light on the wonderfully soft texture of the marble, to see how well the sculptor has caught the ever-changing expression, mischievous and yet touched with sadness, that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna and Child, shows the same exquisite sense of surface texture and a capable realization...
...molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than before with such material yet it is evident that here face was made for gauze and soft lighting, and her voice for more idyllic liners...
...Woman Commands (RKO-Pathe). Apollonia Chalupez (Pola Negri) has a warm soft voice and an accent which, although she is a Polish gypsy, makes her sound almost exactly like Greta Garbo. This curious little picture?a combination of comedy, romance, mid-European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history?does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King...