Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count Romero (Walter Connolly), to Manhattan to meet her family...
...Roosevelt in which M. P.'s of every British party joined the House went home to bed. "The supreme merit of this arrangement," wisely observed the London Times, "is that it is neither default, which was unthinkable, nor payment in full which would have merely left the old dilemma." Specifically Britain, which owed $75,950,000 last week, made a silver token payment worth some $7,200,000 but accepted as $10,000,000. Italy promptly followed with a $1,000,000 silver token for her $13,545,000 owed. Czechoslovakia, normally content to follow France but nowadays striking...
...about Love while fitting her daughter's high school graduation dress, when all this becomes as mawkish as you might expect. Forced to abbreviate, to underline, to shade his story, Director Marion Gering managed to preserve in the picture the calm sympathy for persons innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter, are perfectly cast. Good sequence: A policeman arresting Lester when, for a joke...
...transcendent. His universe is unified, well-planned, still in process of evolution. God has a personality like Man's. Dr. Barnes believes Him good but finds evolution disconcerting because God sponsors Sin and Evil. Dr. Barnes leaves the dilemma unresolved...
Among the belongings of the League of Nations is a great inkstand of ivory and gold. The well is an imperial crown, supported by two antelope horns which statesmen have likened to the horns of a Dilemma. It was a present from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie. Power...