Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comedian, who wrote the script (and the music) and directed the movie, plays an aging, down-at-heel music-hall performer who saves a beautiful young ballet dancer (Claire Bloom) from suicide in World War I London. As she rises to success with his help, he sinks to the bottom. At the fadeout, the white-haired clown dies in the wings of a theater while the dancer he has befriended whirls onstage in "the glamour of limelight from which age must pass as youth enters...
...denial, but got none. HICOG tried to explain, stammered and stuttered, then wisely subsided and firmly requested the West German government and Socialist Party to join in a U.S.-German investigation of the whole affair. Said High Commissioner Walter J. Donnelly: "Let's get to the bottom of this. Let the chips fall where they...
After a stretch in the Navy, he got into General Education at the very bottom, as a section man in Humanities 1. Two years later, he and Dr. Howard Hugo teamed up to offer Humanities 4, the Good and Evil course. Hum. 4 drew so much praise in subsequent Confy Guides, that in three years its enrollment soared from fifty to five hundred and fifty, largest in the College. Accustomed to the give-and-take of small sections, Rhinelander found himself addressing a mass meeting three times a week. "It rather disconcerted me," he admits...
...scraping the bottom of the labor barrel (unemployment was at a new postwar low of 1,438,000, only 2% of the work force), automakers were able to add second shifts and keep output up. Ward's Automotive Reports predicted that October production would total 623,000 cars and trucks, best monthly record in a year and a half. Industry was still expanding fast. Construction outlays totaled $9 billion in the third quarter, the highest quarterly level in history...
...when none of these were successful, the criminal was degraded to the bottom of the class, his name was stricken from the College lists, or he was expelled...