Word: old-school
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...figure of the country doctor is one which has always appealed to the public as being representative of the best qualities in American character. The typical picture is of an elderly old-school physician braving the wilds of blizzards to bring medical aid to the suffering. Usually he is thought of as poor and self-sacrificing, frequently giving his services for nothing, or possibly in exchange for some of the produce of a farm...
Best thing about the current production is its shrewdly cropped text. Worst thing is that the actors prance around too much in the aisles. Most unimaginative thing is the old-school, highbusted performance...
...late John Davison Rockefeller made the country monopoly-conscious in the kerosene days of old Standard Oil Co., the most effective private monopoly ever developed in the U. S. Roosevelt I raised trust-busting to prime issue of his time. In the roaring 1920s the subject was seldom mentioned except by such old-school Progressives as George Norris and William Borah, and even in the first four years of the New Deal trust-busting languished. Meantime the form of Big Business changed from the monopolistic trust to the domination of an industry by a group of potent corporations. Monopoly...
...certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles, it is a slick, high-powered old-school tearjerker, guaranteed to please exhibitors by making their patrons miserable. Typical shot: Carrie, on the point of a business foray into Times Square, restrained by the squeaky voice of little Lady, asking what...
...diplomatic fraternity was inclined to think that von Ribbentrop will have lost rather than gained by his appointment to London. He has been the closest adviser on foreign affairs of Herr Hitler, and his Berlin office, nicknamed Das Euro Ribbentrop, overshadows the German Foreign Office headed by old-school Baron Constantin von Neurath at whom proletarian Nazis sneer...