Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a decent war, it is wholesale murder and butchering of men, a disgrace to the 20th Century. And what for? . . . Pray a little for me. I need it badly. Love always...
...seemed unlikely that St. Pierre could survive the 20th Century, whose ruins, like its wars, tend to be total...
Walda Winchell, 17-year-old blond daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell, signed a renewal contract with 20th Century-Fox, assumed the cinemalias. Toni Eden, commemorating her current crush, Britain's Foreign Secretary...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...
...present allies, the British. From the looks of things, we are going to be fighting on the British side in future wars-far oftener, at any rate, than on the anti-British side. Surely we ought to be able to round up a song which better voices the 20th-century mood of the American people...