Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properties are barely suggestive of the objects they represent, and a vivid imagination is demanded of the audience. There is not the remotest effort to secure realism, and actors knock at invisible garden gates, and gallop about gayly on horses that are at best ethereal. The strangest part of the mechanics, however, is the behavior of the property men. They are always very much in evidence. Slouching all over the stage, they evince only occasionally a condescending interest in the anties of the performers. In general, they withdraw their attention from their newspapers only to sling a cushion...
This began the strangest director-star relationship in the history of U. S. cinema. In a few months was brought about the transformation of Mrs. Sieber. From an awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished...
There are so many jokers wild in Absalom, Absalom! that most readers will feel that the cards have been hopelessly stacked against them. It is the strangest, longest, least readable, most infuriating and yet in some respects the most impressive novel that William Faulkner has written. At first glance it is so pompous in its language and so ridiculous in its theme that readers accustomed to honest dealing will call at once for a new hand. Its action takes place simultaneously on three levels, and although Author Faulkner includes a map, a chronology and a cast of characters to help...
Shortly after 8:30 o'clock Nominee Landon, who planned to spend the night with a friend in St. Joseph. Mo., rose to : bring to an end one of the strangest interludes in the history of U. S. presidential campaigns. As the two new friends parted to resume their strenuous contest for the nation's greatest prize, Franklin Roosevelt said: "Well. Governor, however this comes out, we'll see more of each other. Either you come to see me or I'll come...
...Marx was a poor German Jew; Engels was the promising son and heir of well-to-do textile manufacturers. His family were deeply pained when he became an adolescent pinko; as his political shade deepened to red their annoyance turned to alarm. And from their point of view, the strangest thing about Friedrich was that he was a good business man. He made such a suc cess of the English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable politics. But. from the time he met Marx, Engels had no real interest in anything...