Word: baxter
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...story might be told in as many different ways as there are families, and soldiers. There is certainly no reason why the family should not be a poor one, so that the Sunday Dinner involves sacrifice and anticipation; or why there should not be a marriageable girl (Anne Baxter) on hand; or why she and the soldier (John Hodiak) should not fall in love, even within a day, and make a happy ending of it. But there is every reason why all these people should be real and human, and why the things they do should be unaffected and uncontrived...
...minute whey-faced, invalid Evelyn Heath (Anne Baxter) enters the Proctor home and makes a tender request that nobody move and disturb this perfect picture for just a moment, any perceptive member of the family would have clapped on his hat and sprinted for help. But the Proctors, being merely nice, well-meaning people, are singularly unperceptive...
Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
Doing polkas at the "Arbiter Club" were Paul Kelley, John Baxter, Chris Kotthof and Gordon Koppert. Something on the order of the "Fife and Drum" and the "Silver Dollar," this place simply overflows with folklore and good beer...
...pronounced Lisk), because he got tired of spelling it out. He began Barnaby while contributing a weekly wordless strip to Collier's. Barnaby is frankly addressed to adults, often surprises Johnson by appealing to children too. The reason, he guesses, is that children like to side with Barnaby Baxter against Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, archetypical pragmatists against whose earthbound minds the Barnaby strip is directed...