Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the King's police went out in typical Balkan fashion to get blood for blood. They began a man hunt for Iron Guards in every part of Rumania, but in Bucharest they put on a grisly show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each...
...Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...
...small scale, the production nevertheless did remarkable things with the materials at its command. The suspense, life-blood of the play, was well carried out and combined with a high quality of acting and vivid sets, to finish off the show, like the Emperor himself, in fine fashion. There were times, however, when the pace lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels go to Edwin Pettet who gave...
...last major fashion edict-that hair simply must be upswept-overcame the temporary setback to the hairdressing art caused by the wide acceptance of the medieval pageboy bob, a hair fashion that needed slight and infrequent attention...
...China the Japanese pressed ahead. Copying the British fashion, they bombed with leaflets. But as usual the copy was inexact: not following British restraint, the Japanese simultaneously bombed with bombs, horribly, killing 400 and wounding 400 in Lu-chow, a city without medical supplies. In Shanghai the Japanese military moved towards a showdown with foreigners. U. S., British, French and Italian defense-force commanders were called together and told that international defense of the International Settlement ought to give way to Japanese defense-of what would then no longer be an International Settlement. But lest this be construed...