Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made an address. Other speeches were made by President William Allan Neilson of Smith College, Director William E. Rappard of the Geneva School for Higher International Studies, Governor Stanley Caleb Wilson. Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth of Bennington turned the sod, first step in the building of four semi-permanent wooden structures to be clustered about the nuclear structure, a large, remodeled barn...
...picture wanders about in a maze of poorly acted, disintegrated incident which lacks the cumulative effect of Dreiser's ponderous prose. Dull shots: Phillips Holmes jumping out of a poolroom window when police arrive; smirking at a dance to show how much he likes high life; making bewildered, wooden attempts to seem amorous...
...more than enough to make her buoyant. Handling-lines manned by workmen would hold her fast to the concrete deck of the dock. Under the ship's blunt nose, with its shiny metal tip projecting 75 ft. overhead, was to be a flag-draped wooden platform, festooned with microphones, crowded with bigwigs of the Navy and of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. There would sit Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls and goldbraided Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics; and big-framed, white-haired Paul Weeks Litchfield...
...instead of the five large "eggs" (gondolas), each of which houses an engine on the Los Angeles and the Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors can be and are carried within the envelope, for accessibility, streamlining, speed. Each propeller-two-bladed, wooden, mounted at the end of an outrigger shaft-can be turned down to whirl in a horizontal plane (helicopter-like) as an aid to taking off and landing. (The whirling direction is reversible...
...falls in love with the soldier, as the audience has foreseen. He is wildly agitated when he discovers her duplicity. But, also as the audience has foreseen, he finally comes to appreciate her sterling qualities. Then an automobile accident restores his sight. Perfunctory direction by Berthold Viertel, and the wooden way in which Ralph Bellamy plays the soldier make The Magnificent Lie seem trite and unmagnificent. The role of the cabaret girl was perhaps selected for Ruth Chatterton because it gave her a chance to display her overestimated versatility: she uses stock French mannerisms, hisses in a coquettish way when...