Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Hawks has speeded up even the dialogue by forcing his actors to speak 240 words a minute (average conversational speed - 90 words a minute). Rough est spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic. Synthetic sample: "What does he [Ralph Bellamy] look like?" Editor Burns: "Oh, he looks like that movie actor-Ralph Bellamy...
...first game of the series Dudley won over Kirkland, 3 to 1. Dick Moot, Fred Benedix, Norm Richards, and especially Charlie Griffith fought hard, but the Commuters' teamwork and speed decided the outcome...
Last week, old-style rooters took hope. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, repairing U. S. football rules for 1940. cut the time allowed between plays from 30 seconds to 25. Ostensible reason: to speed up play...
...right time she was in Hollywood seeing darkly scowling Laurence Olivier. He looks like a swarthy Douglas Fairbanks Jr., is as British as young Douglas Fairbanks tries to be. When Olivier was acting with Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, Vivien Leigh used to nag Director Fleming to speed up Gone With the Wind so she could fly to Manhattan and Laurence Olivier. When Vivien Leigh flew to Atlanta, for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, Olivier flew with her. A friend once called their love "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...
...Romano and Bob James, the other two guards, did not make much of a dent in the scoring column but looked good on the floor. Romano showed speed to burn in his brief appearance, and James, as usual, worked very hard...