Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Japan also turned on the U. S., reacting violently from its soft answers to Ambassador Joseph Clark Crew's dressing-down of last month. Mr. Tetsuma Hashimoto, president of a one-man patriotic society called the Purple Cloud, bought five columns in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri to call the U. S. "a pampered millionaire who dabbles in charity without having known suffering." In one of Japan's fishy journalistic coincidences, three important papers all poked fun at the U. S. on the same morning. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan will not remain indifferent...
...this week's show, Walter Huston, from Hollywood, wrestled through Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster; eagle-beaked Comic Jimmy Durante paid off with: "T'ank yuh, Boigess. May I call yuh Meredit'?" Much of the continuity was contributed by the U. S.'s No. 1 literary jack-in-the-box, William Saroyan. Volunteer Saroyan mailed in the last of his manuscript Friday night, forgetting Saturday was Armistice Day, a mail holiday. When Sunday came, and no Saroyan, CBS chased him down, had him re-conjure the missing paragraphs...
...every last chuckle out of a funny line is based on pounding away tirelessly at details, and on an infallible ear for the rhythm of conversation. He will rehearse a play for 15 minutes without looking at the stage, only listening to the dialogue. Suddenly he will call a halt, take out one word which interrupts the flow. No actor has ever managed to ad-lib even a syllable into his lines without Kaufman's spotting...
...Alps, Schlieffen goose-stepped his Prussians around Belgium, but only Boyer is seeking his objective through the Heart. Unlike Russia's overtures to Finland, the movie-star has already won the confidence of his feminine audience. They will cling to every word as he pictures the poilu answering the call of duty just as Boyer placed his marital vows before Irene Dunne (in "When Tomorrow Comes"). They will soon become convinced that a place in the trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer and Dunne facing the rising flood in a Long Island organ loft. But subtic...
...Pitts, on the other hand, who claimed a desire to participate in the protest, and whose attempt to disrupt the meeting also called forth Thursday's letter, the John Reed Society apparently did not see fit to invite him to speak. Whether this was an oversight or an intentional omission I myself cannot say. Even if it was the latter, their action is certainly understandable. Liberals and progressives have long known form bitter experience the destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites. These activities have been felt by liberal organizations everywhere. Had he been seriously interested in the purpose...