Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop feeling like Phylis Walker, the country bumpkin from Oklahoma. "It is my job," explains Colby, "to make these gals catch on fast, and to save them the grief and uncertainty." With poised, older stars like Bergman and Fontaine the problem is the same in essence but different in approach. With Jennifer Jones the problem is more immediate and pressing. Selznick has tied up an awful lot of money in her. Colby is his one-woman finishing school; she tutors Selznick stars and stock players as if she were a combination of Hattie Carnegie, Elizabeth Arden, Emily Post, John Powers...
...newsmen trooped into Ed Stettinius' office to test the new businesslike effectiveness. Stettinius was cordial, as always. He was also mum as a clam. The correspondents probed and pounced, trying one approach after another, but to no avail. The New Dealing New York Post's William O. Player asked: "Does the U.S. attitude depend on Churchill?" Replied Ed Stettinius: "No comment." To all questions, he returned the same answer. Finally, the Chicago Sun's exasperated Tom Reynolds remarked tartly: "It seems to be possible to be more frank in London." Once again, Stettinius purred an amiable...
Gertrude Lawrence breathes buoyancy into this serious drama about love and war, to produce a superior play of intense earnestness. Playwright Jacques Deval has probed deeply into the underlying significance of armed conflict and the meaning of life and death with an original three-character approach...
...picture offers an unusual approach from the start, because the sympathy is with the guilty pair, Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) and Alice Reed (Joan Bennett...
While Dr. Lonn was digging up the facts for Desertion During the Civil War, she discovered her closest approach to a popular subject. This was salt. Something strange and terrible happened to the people in the Southern states when the northern blockade deprived them of salt. The 9,000,000 Confederates had used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives...