Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this to-do dated from last June, when a dozen petulant Indians stormed into the front office of the Cleveland club, wailed that Manager Oscar Vitt's scoldings got on their nerves, asked President Alva Bradley to fire him. Instead of spanking them, President Bradley coddled his pets, asked them please to grin & bear it for the rest of the season...
...normal Nazi, Rudolf Hess, called "Fraulein" because he is hysterical Hitler's nursemaid and governess. There was the ex-wine salesman, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who used to be much in demand for amateur theatricals in the homes of rich and cultured Jews, because he played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make. They thought he was so unimportant they did not arrest him. There was Hitler's brutal Labor Boss Robert Ley. Bayles describes his first meeting...
...Instructor in Classics and Philosophy, Loyola University, in Greek and Latin; Dr. Kurt Goldstein, Clinical Professor of Neurology Columbia University, in psychology; Friedrich C. Sell, formerly Professor at the Paedagogische Akademic, Kassel, Germany, in German literature; Hans Stachle, formerly of the International Labor Office, Goneva, in economics; and Professor Oscar Zariski, of Johns Hopkins University, outstanding algebraic geometrist, in mathematics...
Director Lloyd, who performed a similar service for the British with his 1933 Oscar winner, Cavalcade, knows how to dish out history without resorting to textbook technique. He likes to take a few typical characters of the period, run them through the normal complications of normal people, silhouette them against a background of great dates, deeds, land marks. Thus he fashioned The Howards into a deft exposition of the forces which combined to create...
Rhythm on the River (Paramount) brings back the heterogeneous talents of Funnyman Oscar Levant to the big-time cinema after an eleven-year pause. Fresh from successful sallies into literature (A Smattering of Ignorance) and radio (In formation, Please), Levant revives his movie career as the surly, acidulous secretary of a charlatan song writer (Basil Rathbone). This gives him a chance to rattle off some facile trills on conveniently placed pianos, berate the musical ignorance of the surrounding characters, growl an occasional wry witticism through his cavernous, smoke-filled mouth...