Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lawyer was famed, white-haired George Gordon Battle. To call Earl Browder's evasion criminal fraud, roared Mr. Battle, was "flimsy, uncertain, vague, clumsy, meaningless interpretation of words." To this roar, Attorney Battle added no defense testimony whatsoever, did not even offer a defense summation. Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted. Said he in conclusion...
...work is negative. Instead of building up Britain's economic strength, its entire effort is to break Germany's by cutting off German trade. Two principal means to this end are: 1) naval blockade; 2) underselling and overbidding Germany in markets which the blockade cannot cut off (The Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia, the Balkans...
...which he is using on most of his pop tunes) is the theme song with which he opens his broadcasts. Listen especially to tenor saxman Sam Donahue, who is one of the best white men playing. Gene's playing has quieted down into good solid drumming for the band instead of for himself, so that things really swing most of the time...
...Phonograph Record, Player Piano, and Carmen Lombardo," a satire by Alec Templeton is very, very funny, especially the first and last. Wish Templeton would do more of this instead of trying to play jazz (at which he is very bad) and classical (at which he isn't too good) His satire and musical sense of humor is better than anyone I have heard, and it would seem as though a little division of labor is necessary...
William Gargan talks and looks Joe Turp, makes the film an authentic piece of Brooklyn regionalism. Ann Sothern rattles Ethel Turp's tongue and one little brain cell in Joan Blondell style. Walter Brennan somehow manages to be touching instead of foolish, as the lifelong bachelor devoted to the woman who married the other fellow...