Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dress, brown-uniformed ex-guerrillas wearing red-starred caps, men in fezzes and white turbans and bright sashes around their waists trooped to the polls. Each was given a rubber ball the size of a marble. They were instructed to place their hands, fists closed, in all the little boxes for the Government candidates and then in the one big box for the opposition. Then they raised their hands, palms open, to show that in one of the boxes they had dropped the rubber ball...
...feet. But there were a few flashes of excitement, and one of the greatest for this observer was seeing that big number 72 at the start: Chet Pierce wasn't supposed to be there according to the pre-game prognosticators, and one of the biased inhabitant of the press box was heard to say "ringer...
...people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeoisie, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them into the prisoners' box...
...story is ugly, so are the costumes, but the dancing is outstanding. Most of what humor there is comes from the dances and not from the book. Morton Gould's music, if not juke-box fodder, is at least appropriate...
Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...