Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Hepburn characterization of Trigger as a queer, hot-tempered warmhearted hoyden is wasted on the picture. In mood and manner Spitfire belongs to an obsolete era in the cinema. Typical shot: Trigger describing a lout who has tried to kiss her as "consared Son of Satan."
Historically, Catherine II (1729-96) was an ambitious, shrewd, capable ruler, fonder of sleeping with politically potent gentlemen than of romping with her guardsmen. Because, as in the case of mannish Christina of Sweden, such cold facts would make indifferent cinema, Catherine becomes gentle, amiable, lovable for her good heart...
The hero of the novel is Myron angle, as uninteresting a character as the Mr. Lewis has yet turned out. In this he burns an insatiable passion for the temptation of the Perfect American Inn, similar to the poet's dreams of writing the Perfect Poem. Myron is not a...
The Mother's scene is China, a small, poor village. Readers will notice gratefully that almost no proper names are used. The heroine is a buxom, warm-tempered young wife who finds her hard life good. Days she spends in the field working beside her man. At evening she...
Many an oldtime Smith admirer has felt that the Brown Derby was rapidly losing the common touch since his withdrawal from active politics, was growing reactionary and bad-tempered as the New Deal unfolded. Yet even these erstwhile friends had to admit that Al Smith retained his salty gift of...