Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss, set the keynote. "We are not here to ask for peace but to impose it. This congress is the reply of peoples to the signers of the Atlantic pact. To the new war they are preparing we will...
Princess Margaret, 18, growing up to shoulder more & more of royalty's responsibilities, appeared in Bristol for a straight-faced inspection of some naval cadets. Passing down the line with a solemn escort, headed by the Lord Mayor in full regalia, she managed to brighten an otherwise somber picture...
...began dashing off somber landscapes and expressionist figure pieces done with color squeezed directly from the tube and applied in rough, hurried strokes...
...help tell this somber story, Paramount has used the services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...
...Dukays is his version of the decline of the West, from the turn of the last century to World War II; it follows the decaying lives of members of an aristocratic Hungarian family. Like many ostensibly moral stories, The Dukays' chief feature is not so much its somber conclusion in the inferno as its spicy descriptions of how the characters get there...