Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a tfght which only Indians, perhaps only Hindus, can fully understand. Several times the Mahatma showed extreme nausea. Whenever he fainted Mrs. Gandhi vigorously rubbed his head with olive...
...crowds of paying sight-seers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates can easily bet their money on the result. It ought, of course, to be simple enough for the spectators--men, women, and children --to understand. But experience has shown that this is not indispensable if the ballyhoo is sufficiently vigorous. Many a spectator at a football game does not know what it is all about. He sees only the struggling figures, and if he has good luck may each sight of some warrior carried...
...maker than a football show. Secondly, it is the sort of event on which the old grads and the undergrads can bet in more way than they can even in football. In the third place, it has the great advantage that the whole audience, including the feminine part, can understand...
Insatiable admirers of Marlene Dietrich will swarm to this, her latest starring vehicle, will stay to be bored, and will understand at last why Paramount sought to wrest some manner of control over her acting and stories from the stubborn von Sternberg. For whatever fault, and there is much, which can be found in this cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert...
...plans, without a future.'' Asked what he did all the time, he replied, "Oh, I take long walks and I read; that is about all. ... I never go to the pictures. ... I just walk and read." He said he had no idea when he would return to Chicago. "I understand it is lovely up here in the fall and I am fairly comfortable. . . . This perhaps is not all I have been used to but it is not so bad. I am getting three square meals a day and they are pretty good meals.'' Asked if he would return to Chicago...