Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor wearied of his acedetective role in mystery films, boards a ship for a vacation cruise. On the steamer he meets Phyllis (Elissa Landi), author of many of his scripts, and together they get involved in the murder of a wealthy man and the disappearance of his famous diamond. Somehow murder on shipboard is a favorite sport with Hollywood producers, and this one leads Philip and Phyllis in and out of staterooms for fifteen torturous minutes...
...welcome in the Second World War. "Onward Christian Soldiers" comes forth from them and the piano to mingle with the crash of bombs and the tinkle of glass in the sporadically lit-up darkness. But in with the searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick...
...father of the girls. Appearing first in the stock comedy role of the middle aged man in love with a young charmer, he was an entirely ludicrous figure of the Keystone Cop variety. Later, when the film was expanded he developed into a definite individual, warm and somehow appealing. Had his earlier portrayal been toned down, the picture would more clousaly have approached the perfection claimed by its exponents...
...customary 13 Cabinet officers to eight, pocketing the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...
Emil Ludwig has written 13 biographies. Each of them, winding somehow safe to the last page, made him think of a river. And once a river made him think of the life of man. Then (1924) and there (the great dam at Aswan on the Nile) he decided to write a potamography -the life story of a river. The big job took him a long time, for the Nile covers a lot of ground, has been flowing a long time, has affected many races of men. Last week Potamographer Ludwig's book was ready at last. First readers found...