Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanna (Lee Tracy) has driven himself into the mayorality of a small New England town. Brilliant, forceful, a man of action and success he has also driven himself up the social scale to marriage with Hope Blake (Julie Haydon). Hope is madly in love with Hanna but he cannot summon a similar depth of affection for her. He is too absorbed in his own success, too completely egocentric to be capable of love even towards a girl whom he admires and respects as much as he does Hope. Kate Hastings and Sam Biddle, old journalist associates of Hanna realize that...
...Moscow last week came a significant change. News that Adolf Hitler is building war boats caused popular Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov suddenly to summon Russia's best naval experts. They found "Klim," a cavalryman, eager to learn with fierce concentration in a few days all about their specialty...
Tanned Man. First thing Franklin Roosevelt did last week when he got back to Washington from his yachting holiday off Florida was to peep under Louis Howe's oxygen tent and say hello to his ailing No. 1 Secretary. Second thing was to summon to the White House Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns and Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee to confer about getting the Social Security Bill passed by the House...
...combination of unhappy circumstances has caused Ruggles to be regarded not as a servant but as an aristocratic British colonel. "When people think you are a personage, you become a personage" is the alarming thought that has consequently dawned on Ruggles. He is trying to summon up the courage to deny the habit of a lifetime to the extent of leaving service and opening a restaurant of his own. When he recites the Gettysburg Address, he does so from his heart and the full solemnity of its 266 words is in the bashful quaver of his voice. That this fable...
When Giulio Gatti-Casazza returns to Manhattan from his summers in Italy, the long-established routine has been for him to summon musical reporters and inform them of the singers he has engaged, the operas he intends to produce the coming season. The picture in his dark, musty office has always been the same: Gatti settling his great bulk in a swivel chair, fumbling for the ribbon which holds his pince-nez, reading his announcement aloud in slow, painstaking English. When questions were asked, he would stroke his beard, answer warily or not at all. A grave "good afternoon" regularly...