Word: tortuousness
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...heights as the charming consumptive, Marguerite Gautler. Her seductive shoulders are bared frequently with the desired effect, and the delicately ethereal effect of her appearance in the last scene is nothing short of great acting. Opposite her is Robert Taylor as handsome Armand Duval is convincing in the most tortuous windings of their love affair. Only occasionally did he seem a trifle stolid and remind us of his Pomona College years...
Slow, almost tortuous, has been the evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which mirrors the nation's growth, was a smart special assistant named Carl McFarland. Attesting the thoroughness of Justice Department researchers are 1,529 references in the 558 pages...
...finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny Johnson, to score the spectacle. Designer Norman Bel Geddes, long finished with Lysistrata but not yet started on Dead End, was hired to set the spectacle. Of all the episodes in The Eternal Road's tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show as occupying its own specially constructed tabernacle with a cast of 3,000. This paranoiac aspiration did not quite come true, but Mr. Weisgal did rent from the Scottish Rite...
Since forwarding companies, not the shippers, route the freight, the railroads have a natural interest in forwarding affairs. Among the I. C. C. revelations last week was the method by which New York Central controls U. S. Freight and its big subsidiary, Universal-through a tortuous labyrinth of holding companies and dummy corporations. National Carloading Corp., No. 2 freight forwarder of the U. S., is tied up with the Van Sweringen interests...
...Germans have long been known as the most serious people on earth. Their national "profundity" is as famous as the muddy and tortuous way most of them have of expressing themselves in their own language. That state of mind has produced many great things in music, philosophy and literature, but it has put Germany in a sad condition today. A more frivolous people never would have accepted the preposterous body of ideas which Dr. Rosenberg has assembled and Hitler stands on. The American nonchalance which Professor Hocking deplores is one thing that keeps some long-faced folly like the Nazi...