Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people die on the march. There are great simple moments like the burial of Grandpa (Charley Grapewin). Wisely Nunnally Johnson has retained only the bare bones of dialogue from the novel. So the burial scene is terser, more moving in picture than in book. High point is still Tom Joad's quiet rebuke when the irreligious Preacher (John Carradine) does not want to speak at the grave: "Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words." There is the note Tom Joad writes to bury with the body: "This here is William James Joad...
...Bare as a fresh-scrubbed deck was the story of First Mate Warren W. Rhoads, who wrote a solemn, copyrighted history of the trip for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc. Of their stay in Bergen: "Mrs. Harriman, our United States Minister to Norway, came aboard, a very fine lady. She thanked us all for the way we conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads...
From a handful of bare facts, neutral naval observers last week pieced together a story: Through the mine-strewn, net-hung waters of Helgoland Bight two divisions (three or four ships each) of British submarines made their way fortnight ago. Their highly risky mission was to sneak up and pot-shoot German warboats anchored at their bases, perhaps to intercept a squadron sallying out of harbor. One division belonged to the 640-ton Swordfish class. Two of its ships were the Seahorse and Starfish. The other division belonged to the 540-ton Unity class. One of its ships...
Until last week no U. S. underwriter has had to bare its back to SEC's holding-company lash. Soon after the Supreme Court upheld the registration provision of the act, Manhattan's Stone & Webster, Inc. divested itself of utilities securities (by giving its holdings to its stockholders) and settled back to its own business of construction, management and investment banking. International Paper & Power Co., no banker but a potent holder of utilities stock, woke up one morning to find that it might become a holding company. It finally escaped by turning over its shares of International Hydro...
...though Robeson was still a superb figure of a man with a deep and thrilling voice, John Henry proved an elaborate bore. A rambling, rag-picaresque tale of a black giant toting 800-lb. bales of cotton, laying rails with his bare hands, groaning with woman trouble and at last crashing down while trying to perform a Black River Labor of Hercules, the play never achieved either dramatic excitement or heroic force...