Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the spice of the performance, Actress Aubert's part in Princess Charming is somewhat vague, she being an adventuress through whose boudoir a great many comic figures flit back and forth...
...grip of conditions more awful and appalling than ever before. Prices will never go up again; the world will seethe in war and revolt; all mankind is doomed to a steadily decreasing standard of living until poverty, per-haps starvation, is the rule of life?such talk made spice for bear-food last week...
...suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
...Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill ("steal," its enemies called it) had become law. Some ships, having lost the race, turned out of U. S. ports, took cargoes elsewhere. Conversely, piles of chicle (for gum-chewers), piles of spice and other things nice on which the new law reduced or revoked duties, after long waiting came officially into the U. S. from customs warehouses...
Captain of the Guard (Universal). The fall of the French Empire is tucked into this scenario to give spice to the ardors and difficulties of 18th Century love. A little effort has been made and a good deal of money spent to present a moving picture in the manner of the historical stories that David Wark Griffith directed so successfully many years ago. But everything is stupidly done: the people are schoolbook figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march...