Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twos, threes and fours (indicating four to six guns) at intervals of ten minutes to half an hour. At first they blew craters three feet deep in the frozen ground. Later, the craters increased to six feet deep, 18 feet across, as heavier explosive charges were used. Their military effect was nil and Viipuri's small remaining population soon got over the psychological effect...
With his Irish mug and scarred nose, Maney-who in appearance is a roustabout George M. Cohan-looks the part he plays. He also talks it. Without using cusswords he gets an effect of violent swearing from piled-up epithets, from a trick of calling people things like "low Kanakas," "foul Corsicans." He once called Billy Rose "a penthouse Cagliostro." Suspicious, Rose inquired who Cagliostro was. Said Maney: "An 18th-Century charlatan." "Say," said Rose, "that's swell...
...found to be "affiliates" of C. & S. ("standing in such relation [to C. & S.] that there is liable to be an absence of arms' length bargaining"). The Commission chairman, Majority Spokesman Jerome Frank made clear the irrelevance of competitive bidding "since there is concededly no rule row in effect which requires such bidding." To speed matters up, Morgan Stanley and Bonbright agreed to "impound" their cut of the proposed $28,594,000 bond issue, do all their work for glory alone, if the Commission later found them to be C. & S. affiliates. The Commission accepted this offer, decided...
...Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...
There is a limit to the amount of ballyhoo a motion picture can stand--a limit beyond which the returns are not only diminishing but negative in effect. Those who go to see "Gone With The Wind" expecting "the greatest motion picture ever produced," the "film of the century," and the "apotheosis of the photographic art" are going to be--and have been--disillusioned. But those who approach Loew's with their mental standards set at the usual level will have a rare treat...