Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission passes upon the investment merit of securities registered with it-that registration in itself may be taken as some assurance if not a guarantee against loss to those who purchase registered securities. General acceptance of such a misconception of the Commission's function under the Securities Act of 1933 would defeat the very purpose of the Act...
Fourteen times during five hours, the gavel was slammed to bring the witness to order. Once Kilian stretched, looked at the prosecutor and stuck out his tongue. Said a G.I. onlooker: "I'd like to see one of us act like that...
Born Yesterday is strictly a show, and one with more bounce than craftsmanship. The first act-with its picture of the home life of a baboon and his blonde-is delightful. After that, plot starts muscling in on character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts...
Elliott Roosevelt planned a U.S. lecture tour, and Winston Churchill's bumptious son Randolph reportedly had the same idea. (A possible brothers-under-the-skin act nobody would talk about: a debate between the two.) But first Elliott had to finish writing a book. It was about his father's role in world affairs, and "the story of my father's thinking...
January Thaw uses one of those broad-comedy situations that can be funny for an act but is almost always fatal for an evening. Here very little is funny, even at the start. Beyond grinding out increasingly frantic variations on a single theme, January Thaw is always corny and often cobwebby in its humor...