Word: waverers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward verifying the suspicion that Director Busby Berkeley's bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation of the best song in the picture, "Lullaby...
...happens to be Statesman Churchill's son Randolph. He went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...
Credit for the success of the band is due in a large degree to two men, to Franklin Anderson, director, orchestrator, and baton-waver extraordinary, and to director Guy Slade in whose nightmares must course new schemes for dotting an i amid endless streams of running bandsmen. To these men, and to the members of the band for the interest they have shown, and for the work they have expended, Harvard extends her thanks...
When Antony, a rich, chattering but intelligent expatriate, discovers Victoria, she finds him disturbingly attractive. Antony is happily married, tells her all about his wife, Fontana. Antony falls in love with her, and her allegiance to Sorrel begins to waver. When Sorrel makes senile love to her, when the colony breaks up in mutual recrimination, Victoria in despair debauches herself with one man after another, but never with Antony. Antony leaves for the U. S. on business. Victoria discovers she is pregnant, makes herself ill by overdoses of pills. Fontana comes to find her, is taking her to a hospital...
...tall, teacherish shamrock waver from Dublin did not rise to oppose the entry of Russia. He endorsed it but rose to champion the idea that the few small nations still opposed should be invited to air their views in open assembly. Shaking a bony finger at his pet aversion, British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, and at M. Barthou, the Free State's de Valera cried: "The whole question of procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that...