Word: straightforwardness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since 1926, Capra's career has been eventful but straightforward. His one flop was For the Love of Mike, with Claudette Colbert, in 1927. The picture that made him tops in Hollywood was It Happened One Night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in 1934. He had been discovered by Harry Cohn long before that, repaid his benefactor with hits like That Certain Thing (1928), Dirigible (1931), Platinum Blonde (1931), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), Lady for a Day (1933). From 1930 to 1932, Capra worked only on pictures written by Jo Swerling. Then Capra...
...limp, a big sister and an overwhelming fear of the world. London doctors took care of the limp, a prim precise Londoner married her big sister, but Julie's fear of the world was harder to get rid of. In Julie, Francis Stuart traces the process in a straightforward book that is notable for its characterization of a 15-year-old girl, especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish-imaginative, poetical, mystical novels in which metaphors skyrocketed and prose flickered...
...result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben but as Opus I it rated at least a passing mark...
Plans to reorganize the executive branch date back to the turn of the Century. Franklin Roosevelt's plan, introduced just before the scheme to enlarge the court, resembled one proposed by Herbert Hoover. Recognized for what it was-a straightforward attempt to increase efficiency-it occasioned little indignation. The President's subsequent sad effort to streamline the Supreme Court naturally made suspect his efforts to streamline anything else. As redrafted and passed by the Senate, the Reorganization Bill's principal provisions allowed the President to shift executive agencies with certain important exceptions, appoint one man to replace...
Lucid But Not Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum...