Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bit about Wagner Sr.'s Lutheran grandfather and his inked-in yarmulke is a nice piece of political "skullcapduggery...
Actually, the coal industry might well be able to make up a good bit of the wage increase next year by doing more business with the help of John L. Lewis. After five years of debate, the Federal Maritime Board finally agreed last week to allow American Coal Shipping Inc., an export company formed by Lewis' U.M.W., seven coal producers and three coal-hauling railroads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, the Virginian) to lease 30 surplus Government-owned Liberty ships at an annual charter of $127,282 per vessel. They will use them to boost U.S. coal exports to Europe...
...girl could be considerably improved by the regular application of a rubber truncheon. Some may agree, but the heroine of this picture is not much of an advertisement for the method. Essentially, she is just one more gabby, opinionated woman, and whether from Pilsen or Pawtucket, she seems a bit of a bore...
...plays follow this form so closely that they might seem a bit tedious. (The attractive landlady is in both plays an almost incredible emblem of self-sufficiency.) But since the two central figures of each play differ so in personality, both expositions of the problem are interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually...
Considering the shift from strong people in the first play to weak ones in the second, a great variety of acting skills are required of Mr. Portman and Miss Leighton. Although Miss Leighton's invalid daughter is a bit too invalid, in general they both prove themselves more than adequate to the task. Mr. Portman especially exudes a warmth and stage personality which is fascinating to behold. If their parts were less exciting, May Hallett and Phyllis Neilson-Terry, two boarders, were certainly competent...