Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...remote persons, Lord appears at a New England college, drawn by the writings of one of its dead professors, but leaves almost immediately, enraged with the pedantic stagnation of the place and bearing away with him the vivid daughter (Lynn Fontanne) of the great teacher. Having learned of the weak heart of her other suitor, a mighty footballer, Raphael has spurred the athlete's rage and brought about his death...
Tiger Rose (Warner). Lenore Ulric amply proved that this weak-kneed melodrama of strong men and a siren in the Canadian Northwest was effective in the theatre. Bright-eyed little Lupe Velez lacks the finesse that Belasco taught Lenore Ulric, but makes up for it to some extent by her vivacity, her Mexican accent, and the songs she sings occasionally in a voice sharp as a cactus, shrill and toothy, but somehow attractive. Best shot: Bull Montana wiping his nose with his shirt sleeve...