Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, when this straightforward burlesque starts the film is half over. Earlier and duller footage develops a love affair between Roulien, an Argentinian with a heavy boulevard manner, and wistful Gloria Stuart. Best of the numerous songs he sings about her is called "I'll Build a Nest." Funniest shot: Edna May Oliver, head of the Academy of Medical Science, gravely superintending the manu facture of a synthetic...
Boss McCooey takes a benignant interest in schools, got his sister Margaret on the Board of Superintendents. His espousal of Dr. Colligan did not immediately suit Manhattan editors, who would have preferred a college-trained executive with no odor of Tammany. But they accepted Dr. Colligan as a pleasant, straightforward, progressive pedagog who may, after all, be just the sort of president for a place like Hunter...
...Bennett, with his appetite for facts-of-modern-life, would have enjoyed this book. Nurse Adriane is a love story, but its setting, a big London hospital, is what will hold any Bennett-like reader. Against this fact-laden background almost any story would do. Authoress James writes her straightforward narrative in straightforward London (as opposed to Oxford) English; though her cases are emotional she deals with them like a competent surgeon-cutting neatly to the essential, never faltering into sloppiness...
...author of the surprisingly light-hearted novel, Three Pairs of Silk Stockings. Of peasant origin, he was 33 at the Revolution. He began his literary career by writing humorous short stories, failed to get an audience till the Revolution gave him one. Famed in Russia for his easy, straightforward style, his knowledge of popular psychology, he is no rigid propagandist for "the Party'' but a shrewd observer of the Russian people...
...customary for graduates of Virginia Seminary to hand their diplomas publicly to a girl, but for his there was such competition that he gave it to his mother. The late Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, also tall and, like the rest of the family, personable, un-ministerial and straightforward, was Bishop of Texas. After his election someone told him of Sherman's statement that "if he owned Hell and Texas, he would farm out Texas and live in Hell." Said the Bishop: "Well, General Sherman seems to have had his choice, so I think I will go down...