Word: betrayals
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...trumpet riffs around star number two betray a guy with a perpetual grin, Roy Eldridge. Roy, besides being one of the top swing men in the country, manages to play more fast trumpet than anybody around. To get an idea of why he got the nickname, "Wild Man," listen to "After You've Gone" (Vocalion...
...whom they can turn, and so they cannot overthrow the Daladier government. Yet in the present crisis they must not abdicate their functions. The decision which the "deux chambres" make is a crucial one: a rebuke to Daladier may save French democracy, a ratification of his actions will betray...
...professor of practical philanthropy who was dropped from Yale's Divinity School ostensibly for budgetary reasons after publishing his Capitalism and Its Culture, and was paid a year's salary to stay away from Yale. "We must not," trumpeted Professor Davis, as the delegates arrived, "we cannot betray the organized workers of America by fighting the C. I. O. It is the historic mission of the A. F. of T. to support every progressive and successful labor movement. How can we possibly ignore the C. I. O. and be true to our heritage...
...leader in a time of oppression. When their god falls for another man's wife with the weakness of any love-stricken being, their trust in him is shattered. That they should feel thus seems only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
...occasionally to drive his plane or shoot seals from a curragh, but always returning to drink with his friends, to be talked at and talk a sizzling blue streak. Only when the talk hovers on politics or poetry does the twinkle leave Gogarty's eye. "But nobody can betray Ireland: it does not give him the chance; it betrays him first." An ex-senator of the Irish Free State, he has no love for the Republicans, not one good word for de Valera: "De Valera and degeneration are synonymous." As an outspoken enemy of the Irish Republican Army during...