Word: bested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flirting with the haberdashery business for nearly ten years, ever since the company went through bankruptcy reorganization in 1940. The new management figured that those who came in for cigarettes and tobacco might also walk out with a shirt or tie. Many did. But since men who knew tobacco best were running things, the haberdashery business was not pushed very hard. It failed to halt a decline in sales, and profits shriveled to a paltry...
...Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with a jitterbug personality. Best scene: the free lance collecting his pay with the boyish happiness of a man who has done his first honest day's work at a job he likes...
...Ichabod Disney gets only one chance to exploit his special talents. The midnight chase through a clutching, echoing forest, with the gangling, lily-livered schoolmaster in full flight before the Headless Horseman, is a skillful blend of the hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
Pinky. The best, thus far, of the Negro problem firms, with Jeanne Crain (TIME...
...popular with them, but it will at least serve to give them an idea of what his dry, remote, ironic and highly individual writing amounts to. Hesse was born in Germany 72 years ago, wrote autobiographical novels and lyric poetry in his youth-he is considered one of the best German lyric poets since the age of Goethe -became a Swiss citizen during World War I in protest against German militarism. He traveled in India, wrote a volume on Hindu mysticism in his middle years, published a Dostoevskian psychological , novel in 1930 and after 15 years of silence brought...