Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said he: ". . . The really smart trick we pulled was that after Lindbergh made his speech we put his mother-in-law [Mrs. Dwight Morrow] on the air-and was that a face card? It was! She said, 'Telegraph the White House and your Congressmen.' . . . 15,000 telegrams came tumbling down on Washington, saying 'Give the destroyers to Great Britain.' They never knew what hit them...
...severest strain, and will test to the limit our capacity for readjustment to the realities of the modern struggle for life. Among the ways and means of survival in this fateful hour, administrative management will loom large-if not the largest single factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash with grim reality. What we are swiftly approaching-are now actually in-is a now era in national and world affairs. This is a revolutionary period-almost a preview of Armageddon...
...this a problem which will face the United States in doubled degree when the war has ended. A demobilized army and the collapse of defense industries will make blacker and more dangerous the post-war unemployment picture. Work-camps may not be a solution; they are an attempt at an answer. To the practical experiments now being undertaken, Harvard owes it to Williams James to contribute...
...heap because of their magic. They know they must avoid oblique angle close-ups of Clark Gable so that his sugar-bowl ears won't predominate. They quickly learn that a new comer like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless to conceal the wrinkles that make-up and careful lighting won't hide. Photographing rubber chins and putty noses on a bias to avoid detection is a matter...
...rest of the proceedings involve the attempt of three arch spooks (Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi) to do away with a young girl (Helen Parrish) about to come into her inheritance on her 21st birthday. Whether or not she will survive to attain her majority in the face of such villainy supplies a reason for allowing Kyser to grapple with grotesque props...