Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...third city, after many a postponement a new daily was born: George Fort Milton's evening Tribune. In Washington the Tribune was news because it brought Publisher Milton, an ardent New Dealer, back from unwilling retirement. In Chattanooga the Tribune was news because it revived a newspaper feud of some 16 years' standing...
...vaudeville has for generations connected with Celts. Somehow Thomas Mitchell was snared into playing the lead as an Irish cop. Priscilla Lane is his daughter whose elopement with her father's Scawttish supplanter on the police force (Dennis Morgan) complicates further the picture's leitmotif-the family feud between the Scotch and the Irish...
...antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work...
...strategy would be to heckle the King Cabinet unmercifully week after week in Parliament. Mr. King's bland refusal to take Conservatives into his Cabinet for the duration of the war offered the opportunity. The accident of Mitch Hepburn's choosing this moment to press an intraparty feud with placid Mr. King merely made the attacks of Conservative Manion more embarrassing...
...PEOPLE SING-J. B. Priestley -Harper ($2.50). An old-time music hall comic, an exiled Czech professor, a somewhat sickening heroine (who does not sicken her author) become the storm centre of a three-sided feud in small Dunbury. The argument is of industrialists v. landed snobs v. common people-over which class shall have the use of the Market Hall. Abetted by a lot of old-fashioned plotting and comic incident and by a drunken representative of Old England At Its Best, the workers win, and every good person gets what he was after. Thus combined, Author Priestley...