Word: catch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Before the Senate was a drastic, catch-all bill, introduced by Texas' Tom Connally, which would deport aliens for (among other things) writing seditious articles, possessing dangerous weapons, engaging in prostitution...
...story alone always makes good entertainment, in "Irene" music, beauty, and a behemoth colored-mammy jitterbug are thrown in for good measure. Anna Neagle is the starryeyed girl with an Irish brogue who falls into fairyland. Ray Milland and Alan Marshall are the tail-coated sheiks who try to catch her. And when Ellis Island and Plymouth Rock don't quite fit together, May Robson is there to prove that you can't stop an O'Dair from the County Clare after he's caught sight of a goal or a bottle. As granny on the maternal side...
Waterloo Bridge (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a drastic reworking of Robert Sherwood's doleful drama about a love episode in Blighty during World War I-keyed up to catch the overtones of World War II, and toned down to meet the objections of censors. Waterloo Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing...
...Bellboys went into the final week of competition with but a slim chance to catch the pace setting Deacons, and Wednesday's defeat made a Lowell final win a mathematical impossibility...
This time however, his arrangements lacked their usual sparkle. For once, you didn't have to play them over and over again to catch stray and subtle instrumental ideas. The records were pompous and grandiose, and suffered from all the bad taste of meaningless slowing of tempos, etc. that Kostalonetz usually avoids...