Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...search of The Ideal Woman, posed as artist, advertised for model in Turin papers. Several hundred candidates. Asked to leave town under suspicion of white slavery...
...Christmas, Megiddos went this week to Assistant Pastor Percy J. Thatcher's drama, Pilgrims of Light. Longer than an O'Neill tragedy, it took two nights to perform in the flower-banked, frame mission hall, told the story of brothers who traveled round the world in their search for Truth. For Megiddo children, who do not believe in Santa Claus, there were quantities of useful gifts...
Soon he was finding spirituality in Phoenix, El Paso, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami. Nothing like it had been seen since the search for Scarlett O'Hara. Miss Spirituals "must have a spiritual look," must be between 18 and 22, must not smoke or drink, must go to church regularly. In addition, they must have a certain zip. Says Preacher Jardine: "I want to de-oomph the Oomph Girl...
...side, tearful Finns quoted an old Nordic saying: "Sorrows are our reins, bad days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating back & forth of the shuttlecock of blame...
...Passenger to Bali (by Ellis St. Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...