Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mystery Street" has that aura of authenticity so valuable in a semi-documentary. Anyone who saw last year's shooting and reshooting in the Yard will be surprised at how spontaneous the carefully staged scenes appear. It is the sense of actuality and spontaneity that makes "Mystery Street" a quietly absorbing film...
...Mystery Street" has that aura of authenticity so valuable in a semi-documentary. Anyone who saw last year's shooting and reshooting in the Yard will be surprised at how spontaneous the carefully staged scenes appear. It is the sense of actuality and spontaneity that makes "Mystery Street" a quietly absorbing film...
...understand them." There were no Republicans aboard to complain "Yes, but how about the deficit?" There were no Southern Democrats to point out how little he had accomplished. There had been only Harry Truman, the salesman of good intentions and the man with the common touch, wearing the aura of the presidency, doing what he did best-meeting the people. In the year 1950, there was still no one around who did it better...
...last year's federal election dropped to 32,623 (from a peak of 111,892 in 1945). Red leadership has been mainly wiped out in Canada's labor movement. What was obviously wanted was a new face to give the party a kindlier look and dispel the aura of treachery that has hung over it since the spy scandal. Dr. Endicott, with his pleasant voice and frank manner, seemed to be just the right...
...Catholics we abominate and we condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...