Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expansion of the story. Hemingway is very "hard to follow." That Producer Mark Hellinger and Siodmak manage to do as well as they have is sufficient tribute to their skill. Employing no big name actors, they spin out a tautly wound picture which is very tough without the meaningless piling up of horror on horror that has plagued such productions as "The Big Sleep." Starting with the fact of the Swede's murder, the picture by a series of flashbacks tells the story of how he was once a prize fighter and in love with a nice girl and what...
...which threatens imminently in the ranks of the CIO: the issue of Communist domination. It is a question which on the one hand Congressman Rankin and others of his ilk have obscured by their irresponsible use of the epithet "Red" so as to render the word well-nigh meaningless, and on the other by the Communists in their unwillingness to declare themselves as such. By bringing up the question at an open meeting, the Liberal Union has done much to clear the surcharged atmosphere surrounding undergraduate political groups...
...treaty issue. A two-thirds vote of the conference could send a treaty to the Big Four, any one of which could refuse to sign. If Russia, for instance, balked on the free Danube clause, her troops in possession of the river's banks could make the clause meaningless...
...radical criticism of the Christian faith in the light of modern culture. . . . It expressed itself chiefly in a sigh of intellectual relief when it heard wise men declare that Christianity was just as simple as doing good and that the profundities of the Gospel were, after all, virtually meaningless...
...hands of, stand shoulder to shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...