Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the rare guest gets an individual portrait. Highlights of the book are the portraits of Bemelmans' coworkers. Strict but sentimental Otto Brauhaus, the "Splendide's" manager, was an exception to the usual manager "whose face is like a towel on which everyone has wiped his hands." Otto used to say of his beloved primitive paintings: "Sometimes when I'm alone, I look at them, and they look at me, so brimidif, like this," and "he would look sideways out of his face, just like his primitives...
...hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration. Strict adherence to the Rogers formula gives The Arkansas Traveler, first picture in which Burns has appeared as a star, much of the same amiable, folksy entertainment value...
...toned down in order to harmonize with the more inhibited modern stage, and lest the novel case arise of a play in Greek censored by the local Watch and Ward society. All the obscene paraphernalia will be omitted, but, the officers say, "there will be no departure from strict archaeological exactitude...
...favors the study of classics in secondary school as excellent mind training and self-education, and rather approves of the idea that the subject should contain more drudgery than interest. At a later time in discussing the minds of students, Dr. Lowell says they do not object to strict discipline in itself, particularly if they are responsible for the result. But he does not take into consideration the fact that it is only when a student is genuinely interested that he will drill and grind at a subject, otherwise he is apt to be merely a hard-working bore...
Student monitors are considered by the College as officials of the University, and are under strict obligation to attend all meetings of courses for which they have been appointed takers of attendance. The list of courses in which reports are made include almost all courses regularly open to Freshmen...