Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will understand that these suggestions are not for making you different but only admiringly for making you more and more what...
...catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play's division into acts, it is not a photograph of a play. It is a reproduction in which dramatic values have been replaced by cinematic values and which is skillfully acted by film players trained to understand the camera. The voices come out clearly and naturally, not yet as clearly as real people talking, but modulated so that you forget the sound device. Best shots: Norma Shearer wringing a proposal from Basil Rathbone; Norma Shearer stealing back into her room with her hostess' pearls...
...clandestinely some weeks ago at night behind closed church doors in Lainz, Vienna suburb. An anonymous threat of assassination if the marriage took place had been received. Even last week this fear hung over the long-thwarted lovers. Paradoxically both are immensely rich, envied by people who do not understand their years of trial. Princess Elsa is the daughter of an Austrian coal tycoon. Prince Franz is supposed to have inherited nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery in Vienna, famed as "the most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing...
...here during the American occupation, he might be able to write something about the assassination of the 3,000 natives by the American soldiers in less than two years; this will be of interest to many American citizens residing in this country who never have been able to understand such a slaughter...
...chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around on his yacht in warm weather until she finds out that he has tired of her. The moment when she is trying to understand that this has happened is what makes you remember the picture. She goes down to her cabin and stands in front of the wash basin. Because she is standing there she starts to wash her hands, then all of a sudden, to keep from crying, sticks her head...