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Word: bottome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found out the hard way. Glen Garden's caddy corps blindfolded him, stuck him in a barrel and rolled him down a boulder-strewn hill behind the caddy house. At the bottom, he was paddled soundly. Then, in a kangaroo court finale, the boss caddy picked out a kid Hogan's size and said: "All right, fight him." Ben whipped the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels its tensions. These powerful effects are achieved without off-focus blurs, mad music, or tilting rooms, but with fine direction and expert acting. The one photographic trick is used in picturing the writhing mass of hopeless minds struggling at the bottom...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: The Snake Pit | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...husband. Celeste Holm appears briefly as a completely mad girl who tries to choke all who come near her, and is only comforted by the heroine. Her powerful portrayal of the pitiful figure leaves a strong impression, for she does not recover and is left in darkness at the bottom...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: The Snake Pit | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...terrifying fate of the mentally sick. An ignorant doctor and a power-loving nurse each causes relapses when the patient is almost recovered. Her cure is the work of one doctor who takes special interest in the case. Without this doctor, she would be one more at the bottom...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: The Snake Pit | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...lack of Hollywood exaggeration or unreal emotion, although it strains at one touch of sentimentality when the inmates tearfully sing "Going Home" at an asylum dance. Except for this minor defect, the film's purity aids it in revealing the dark horrors of mental disease at the bottom of a snake...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: The Snake Pit | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

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