Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original members feels like making a picture, United Artists will distribute it. The deal does not affect producers like David Selznick and Walter Wanger who distribute through United Artists but are not partners. It gives Producer Goldwyn in Hollywood and Producer Korda in London a better chance to profit from their own enterprises. It also gives Producer Korda, who has been dissatisfied with U. S. exhibitors' handling of his pictures, a better chance to compete with Hollywood on equal terms...
...Jack Dempsey-you know Jack Dempsey, of course-taught me how to duck. And who should know better how to teach anybody to duck than Jack Dempsey? After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from...
...with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea of this thing, but the less said about it the better...
Author Hendrick was no petty popularizer, rushing into print to meet a political opportunity or beat the Liberty Bell. Neither New Dealers nor Republicans could make resounding political copy of his book, but New Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers...
...that she has been able to say a great deal, and has become a bestseller. Her shyness arises from the fact that she was born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures. They hate Rosamund for her success, are always borrowing money from her. Except for them, she has almost no truck with the outside world...