Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...RIGHT AND TIME IS WRONG AND EARL LONG WINS THEN TIME'S EDITOR...
...Wage-Hour Law ("Nothing [so] threatens to throttle small business today . . ."); Social Security's payroll tax ("particularly oppressive"), Bob Taft was well into his third century of speeches since he was elected to the U. S. Senate 15 months ago.* Even the wise guys allowed there was nothing wrong with Candidate Taft's will to win. Of the 28 States he has visited lately, said Mr. Taft, "two or three" are doubtful. All the rest are Republican...
...young, earnest Bill McChesney Martin on Sing Sing First Baseman Dick Whitney's throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late Financier E. H. Harriman. who always bought at the bottom. Wall Street, long in the dumps (a Stock Exchange seat last week sold at $48,000-lowest since 1918), has to Optimist Pierce...
Because the picture deals with everyday U. S. types, casting was all-important. Key character was Ma Joad (Jane Darwell). If she was wrong, the picture could never be in focus. She is magnificent. Russell Simpson is owlish Pa Joad. He is also a million men who plough, seed and harvest U. S. farms. Only star used was Henry Fonda (Tom Joad). For him the part was a throwback to one of his best roles, the young lineman in Slim. Others like John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Zeffie Tilbury, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Frank Darien have played minor roles in pictures...
...Earl of Chicago, persevering Robert Montgomery is at some pains to show them they were wrong. As Silky, a sly, post-Prohibition Chicago gangster, who inherits an ancient and honorable British earldom, young Mr. Montgomery proves that his criminal instincts are sound. His triumph is all the more thumping because, as a movie, The Earl of Chicago never quite knows where it is going. Starting as a comedy in Chicago, it turns into stark drama under the impact of British manners and manors. Silky, once a carefree, moronic young mobster, snapping rubber bands at a pair of shapely legs (their...