Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town that boasted a third-class post office, a weekly paper, a municipal debt...
...Robert Taylor's profile seen from the right. When Actor Taylor, functioning as Lieutenant Timberlake, has been removed from the proceedings by heroic death in action, the picture gathers pace. The idealistic love of Peggy (Joan Crawford) for Senator John Randolph (Melvyn Douglas); her marriage to Eaton (Franchot Tone); and her single-minded devotion to President Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value. Surrounded by youthful matinee idols who seem a shade too chipper in the roles of mature statesmen, Lionel Barrymore grunts, glares and snuffles to fine effect...
...prostitute, a torch-singer, a dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from drowning and from his twisted view of life by the despised Miserable Sarah. He goes back to the house party, weary and wiser, to face the scorn...
Carefully formulating his words, the President answered in a tone of reproof: "It is a great disservice to the proper administration of any government to link up human misery with partisan politics...
When observed reading the newspaper Suzy (Jean Harlow)* has already attended the Derby, married an Irish airplane mechanic (Franchot Tone), seen him shot by a mysterious veiled lady (Benita Hume). Under the impression that she is a widow, she marries André Charville (Cary Grant), heir to a fine château, whom she meets in a cabaret. Charville turns out to be France's No. 1 ace. He is also a knave who breaks Suzy's heart with his philanderings. Who is the girl Suzy finds him kissing late one evening on a hospital...