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...revue, however, has no alternate crutch in the writing of the sketches. Aimed at unimaginative targets, Charles Sherman's satire has a toothless bite. The dialogue in his picture of an inane cocktail party sounds like something Noel Coward might have written in prep school, while a second skit relies on that hoary staple of a dozen revues--the parody of famous playwrights' styles. Even the spectacle of Miss Davis as a hillbilly crone and a lethargic slattern in gym shoes can't offset a script which comes up with a little horror like Flying Saucers, featuring a trio...
Disguising himself, he crossed the frontier and moved westward, begging food and shelter on the way: "When I saw a cross on the wall, I knocked on the door. Where there was a cross in the house, there was also a bite of bread for the refugee and a spot to sleep . . . God blessed me, and here I am in the free world...
Actually, the gain was not as big as it looked; some of it simply reflected bookkeeping adjustment. Last year's third-quarter profits were hit hard by Congress's big retroactive tax bite which came out of the third quarter in one big chunk. U.S. Steel, for example, set aside an added $26 million in taxes to pay the bill. It was also helped by a $5,000,000 tax credit under the excess-profits law, since this year's actual profits were below last year's. Consequently, Big Steel was able to show a third...
...best God can do at the time, with conditions as they exist." He also likens the world to an old sow, which would lie down lazily in the muck and never move, if it were not for the gadflies-the rebels, artists and other eccentrics-that buzz and bite in her somnolent...
...Northern Democratic city bosses keep up their tolerance of organized gangsterism to maintain party strength. Truman claims to be honest, but he is unable to stop the tax fixing said widespread petty corruption in his own administration. And as far as civil rights and personal liberties go, McCarran's bite is a good deal more deadly than McCarthy's bark...