Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selling Point. In Manhattan, Kans., Ellis Stackfleth invited an accident insurance salesman to come back later, followed him out of the house, fell on the icy pavement, broke his leg.
"Live Today for Tomorrow" stands out in bold relief against a background of second-rate "psychological dramas." The film concerns Judge Calvin Cooke (Fredric March), a revered man of Law who is faced with the knowledge that his wife Catherine (Florence Eldridge) is incurably ill, and the problem of keeping...
In the article I refer to there is absolutely no causal connection between the accident and the color of the student's skin. Whether the student is a Negro or a red Indian is completely irrelevant in this particular situation. The mention of his color is therefore completely unnecessary and...
This article itself illustrates the contrast between a justified and an unjustified descriptive term. The student's blindness obviously bears a significant relation to the accident; his colored skin does not. Therefore, the latter should not have been mentioned, just as his shoe size was omitted.
Shuffling & Jumping. It was not entirely an accident. Fast-talking Frankie Laine (real name: Frank LoVecchio) had picked himself a "safe" repertory: "Who doesn't want to hear On the Sunny Side of the Street, Body and Soul and All of Me? You can't miss with them...