Word: acridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muriel Flood (Miss Bankhead) is alternately berated and praised by her hard-boiled and single-minded manager (Clay Clement), is tirelessly pursued by a stodgy suitor from her home town. The sympathy with which she receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When...
...After an acrid hearing Circuit Judge Walter Morris Dinwiddie took the case under advisement. Last week he turned down NAACP's argument, flatly refused to issue an order compelling the University of Missouri to admit Blackamoor Gaines. Granted an appeal to Missouri's Supreme Court, NAACP Attorney Sidney Redmond barked: "We're all set for a long, hard fight...
Italy's most acrid editor, Giornale d'Italia's super-Fascist Virginio Gayda, cracked: "The wealth amassed by American Democracy was attained with wars of expansion and conquest during which they exterminated all native races. Nevertheless they have not known how to stamp out gangster crimes, and finally Lindbergh, America's national hero, has been obliged to seek safety for his child in voluntary exile across the Ocean." Terming the President's strictures upon Europe a form of intervention in the Continent's affairs, Signor Gayda ludicrously screeched, "Roosevelt's attempt at American...
...situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch...
...acrid controversy between Auditor Hurley and Howard Gill, superintendent of Norfolk Prison, has for the past two weeks been front page news in Boston newspapers; their attitude, and that of the political public, has been that this is an exciting, and a somewhat amusing, political battle of the usual pre-primary variety. A recent editorial in the Boston Herald even warned against allowing this quarrel to endanger the Norfolk system, implying that it should be relegated to the realm of pure politics. A Boston Post news story on the day of an extraordinary blast by Mr. Hurley concluded...