Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ives managed to talk 20th Century-Fox out of tampering with The Blue-Tail Fly, though he did have to bowdlerize his other favorite, Foggy, Foggy Dew, an old Irish ballad. The Hays Office objected to these lines...
...Governor General ascended the thrones. After members of the House of Commons, summoned from down the hall, had crowded in, the Governor General began to read a speech -first in English (20 minutes), then all over again in halting French (half an hour). Then Canada's 20th Parliament, after the first really ritualistic opening in six years, got down to routine business...
State Fair (20th Century-Fox), a Technicolored, Rodgers-&-Hammerstein tuning-up of the Phil Stong novel, is meant to be as happy as a hayride down the middle aisle of Oklahoma! The spacious, easygoing story...
Died. Sir Bernard Partridge, 83, mustachioed, meticulous, mid-Victorian chief cartoonist of Britain's famed Punch, who faithfully pen-& -inked 20th Century faces from Queen Victoria through the Kaiser (109 appearances) to Hitler (more than 120); in London...
With a bumper crop of novices in prospect (some from the armed services), Father Superior Whittemore is optimistic of his Order's future. Says he: "Our pres ent problem ... is to adjust the principles of monasticism to the 20th Century. We must dare, by God's help, to live dangerously...