Word: graciously
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...those lines if it takes all winter. He may come to believe that Mr. Babbitt is not quite bright, and write examination papers as deliberate in perversity as he can make them. Either way, he will prosper in the course. The amateur humanists will get the gracious acknowledgements that fall to those who repeat things agreeably, and the non-conformist will find his carefully-planned papers marked with a creditable grade and a note: "Good argument. You'll get over this after a while...
...bashful husband of last season's Apron Strings. Up Pops The Devil affords him another chance to play the part of a puzzled, naive young man, establishing him as a first rate juvenile. Sally Bates, who has had dealings with the Theatre Guild, carries off the honors for gracious and adult acting...
...boiling with indignation," said he last week to reporters, "I stood by my friend Mr. Brockway to protest against our effete Parliamentary system. The Labor Government will be faced with many more such protests while it continues to ape its so-called betters. Lord Tom Noddy may cut a gracious figure in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas [the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, M. P., P. C., onetime engine greaser, today Secretary of State for the Dominions...
...French Foreign Office, suavest in Europe, Correspondent Knickerbocker's cables were called a "fantasy." Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, either caught red-handed or with a blissfully clear conscience, had just made a most gracious gesture toward Italy. He had announced that work on the new war boats laid down in the French naval program will be suspended for six months. In Italy the Fascist press took its friendliest tone toward France in weeks, not forgetting to hail M. Briand's announcement as a great diplomatic victory for // Duce...
...unusual happened and Holiday still elucidates, with some truth and not too much solemnity, a civilized predicament. Mary Astor is properly severe and gracious as Julia. Ann Harding, as her little sister Linda, is less mannered and more attractive than was Hope Williams on the stage. Robert Ames grins and frowns as Johnny Case. The whimsicality of Edward Everett Horton, impersonating Linda's friend Nick Potter, sometimes threatens to grow stubborn, but he finds the proper gestures for Playwright Barry's famed success-story monolog, "How I Invented the Bottle...