Word: tempos
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...such backstage talk. There were some hurt prides in House and Senate but the President still held the whip hand over the Capitol. The pressure of public opinion was as strong as ever in his favor. Party patronage had yet to be distributed in a big way. The swift tempo of the first few weeks was over with the passage of emergency legislation but the change in Congressional pace did not signify a change in spirit. Most observers were agreed that the President could get anything he wanted throughout the special session...
...double cross roads of the world." Here is the locale, motif, and gospel of "42nd Street," intense, jazz-maddened moving picture of backstage life, now at the Metropolitan Theatre. The show is another "Broadway Melody" without as many song hits, perhaps, but certainly with better acting, ballet, and fiercer tempo...
...first three decades of the century the upward trend of automobile production continued at a staggering tempo. Its momentum was only slightly retarded by the deflation of 1921 and its renewed burst of vigor in 1922 speedily regenerated business throughout the land. Each successive year of growth heightened the American Standard of Living and added to the nation's wealth. Cross sections of that upswing showed...
Technically, they say, the French are not the equals of the California engineers, but one has some doubts. The use of music throughout the film shows an imagination, an originality, and an ability to fit the music to the tempo which American films lack. The use of the camera, particularly in the opening scenes showing deck tennis, is equal to Hollywood's best, though not quite up to the standards so definitely set by the serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense...
...everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved his own tempo...