Word: acted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Billion Dollar Baby" has two acts; the first is too long and monothemistic, feverishly satirizing the raccoon coat and bathtub gin, while the second, in a different vein, is a Daliesque stylization of a flapper's dream. The last scene is a throwback to Act I, with the flapper marrying the millionaire and the stock market tumbling down upon their presumably empty heads...
...Death Sentence." After ten years, private utilities finally got Section 11 (the "death sentence") of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 before the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the Act, the Securities & Exchange Commission has already divorced 344 subsidiaries (total assets: $4.3 billion) from their parent holding companies. But Wall Streeters have only a slim hope that the Court would kill the death sentence...
Ingrid Bergman is that rarity in Hollywood-a good-looking woman who can change her personality to suit her part. As Clio, freed from the virtuous nobility of her usual roles, her brilliant act of sexy razzle-dazzle makes most of Hollywood's glamor girls look like bobby-soxers...
First they favored the extension of the present Selective Service Act, when it expires next May, but with the important reservation that it be on a year-to- year basis. They also insisted that the maximum period of service for the new draftees be fifteen months...
...machine that would make safe, weak chlorine gas from salt water, and gave the treatments to others. In spite of clerical and medical criticism, he has been doing it for some ten years. Most doctors regard a chlorine treatment as hocuspocus: no one has explained how it can possibly act against disease...