Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-fascist in a typically Shavian way, Geneva makes fools rather than villains of the dictators. For that matter, it pretty well makes fools of everybody in the play. But at 83, G. B. S. is no longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long, says far too little. More of his ideas are old than new, more of his jokes forced than funny. But what Dr. Johnson said of women preaching is also true of octogenarian play writing: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done...
...costs $275 or less to build up the flying time required for a private license.* Thanks to the light loads their large wings carry, "light planes," which commercial pilots call flivvers, pop-bottles, and of which an unprecedented 2,500 are being turned out this year, are all but foolproof. They cost as little as $1,098 new, far less at secondhand, may be hired at 4? per seat per mile. In one such, Langewiesche flew from New York to Key West. The cost of fuel, oil, hangars, a standard 20-hour engine check...
...nearly 500 battles, over an area almost the size of the U. S., twice fled to exile after complete disaster, made his comeback in some of the most spectacular forced marches and brilliant battles in military history. Simultaneously he battled his compatriots to establish a democracy which would be foolproof against dictatorship...
...them assemble an authentic, awe-inspiring record of a savage country and people that would have scared Tarzan out of his breechclout. Back in Hollywood, Zanuck turned his album over to his ablest associate producer, Kenneth Macgowan, his ace action director, Henry King (In Old Chicago), gave them a foolproof cast headed by M.G.M.'s Academy-Awarded Spencer Tracy...
Each Dawn I Die (Warner Bros.-First National) winks at the Hays Code, which frowns on teaching cinemaddicts how to commit crimes, by illustrating a practically foolproof way to commit one. When Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square...