Word: backgrounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Finklehoffe have located the story in a college and have filled it with glamor-boys and pretty co-eds. This time it is dear old Bailey U. that takes the alma mater honors and the life is quite a revelation. Armed with forged Groton diplomas and a beer-hall background, Maxie and stooge Sid Silvers crash Bailey to run an underground bookie racket and take the students for an expensive ride on the ponies. From there on it is a mad chase from physiology classroom to basketball floor to the girl's dormitory to R.O.T.C. drill field to Junior Prom...
...good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee has proved itself a willing sounding board for what Max Lerner has called "kiss and tell" disgruntled fascists and communists of perjured word and shady background. It has seized at every opportunity to hit the headlines with some, new "expose," often upon the basis of the flimsiest kind of evidence. Distinguished educators, outstanding liberals and practically every New Dealer in Washington have been subjected to entirely unjustified attacks. More humorous, but equally indicative, was the classic...
...Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, and has carefully borne in mind the example of his powerless father...
...about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
...sleeping natives, another hut hung with drying rubber strips, glides beside a fence to where a pigeon is drowsing. The silence is heavy with long, sharp shadows. Suddenly a shot splits the still air, the pigeon flaps off, a figure staggers onto the porch of a house in the background...