Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thus, They Knew What They Wanted, the cinema's third version of the late Sidney Howard's 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinning play, is principally a distinguished directorial exercise with three notable characterizations. A mustache, black curly hair, a soup-thick Italian accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they...
...measure passed in the last eight years,--reforms which his own party is endorsing in the present campaign. His vote was recorded against the A.A.A., against the Wagner Labor Act, against the Social Security Act. Of the federal legislation to ameliorate the acute problem of inadequate housing for one-third of the nation, all he had to say was that "God made these people unfit to live in better dwellings." Here is a man who has closed his eyes to every evil and abuse in our society. Here is a man who has apparently read and learned nothing since...
...Third Byzanine Collection...
Crimson yachtsmen were unable to cope with the high wind on the Charles River Basin yesterday, and were forced to be content with third place behind M.I.T. and Princeton in the Quadrangular Regatta for the Jack Wood Trophy...
...second half the desperate Johnnics buckled down and threatened several times but still to no avail. The Tiger remained untamed, for the third period found another counter added to the Orange and Black collection...