Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas . . . And, in cooperation with other nations, we should foster capital investment in areas needing development...
Last week's production accepted, indeed courted, Richard as melodrama. Everything was painted in bold primary colors; a good deal was literally bathed in baleful crimson light. But the thing had pace and a certain crude excitement, and Richard Whorf's usurper, limping of foot and swift of brain, was enjoyably malign. There was nothing subtle about any of it, and toward the end there was much that was strident; but if never anything more, it was a pretty good show...
...Live Today for Tomorrow" stands out in bold relief against a background of second-rate "psychological dramas." The film concerns Judge Calvin Cooke (Fredric March), a revered man of Law who is faced with the knowledge that his wife Catherine (Florence Eldridge) is incurably ill, and the problem of keeping the secret from her. As her attacks increase, Judge Cooke finally decides to execute a "mercy killing," and one night deliberately wrecks the automobile in which he and his wife are driving. Immediately after, he confesses the entire crime and is brought into court. His plea of "guilty" collapses when...
...born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty potentates. Says one Hungarian priest: "The Primate is a great man, it is true. But his father-he was an even greater...
Instead of higher rates, said ICC, U.S. railroads should step up efficiency and cut costs by "bold experimentation with new devices and methods . . . imagination and ingenuity...