Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely convincing performance of a wife whose family life was all based on a great lie. Unknown to her husband she is not the mother of his son. The movie is tense with the psychological struggle which embroils Bette with the mother of this son who returns to claim his father. By skillful direction and able use of restraint this intensity is maintained up to the final scenes where Brent as the husband finally learns of the great lie and makes his decision...
Katherine Hepburn manages to play what some critics claim is Katherine Hepburn with consummate artistry. James Stewart acts out what is most certainly not James Stewart with considerably less success. And Cary Grant serves as an excellent back-drop for the two. Take the acting of these three, plus excellent support from the minor characters, a highly sophisticated (often too sophisticated) script, and excellent direction throughout, and you have "The Philadelphia Story...
...This claim has been met out of the Medical Comforts' Fund, as the juju was supplied by a member of the medical profession. It is not, however, considered that the qualifications of any of the R.N. or R.A.M.C. doctors serving in the district would have enabled them to produce the desired effect. The retention of a local practitioner is therefore considered justified...
...Nazis and others have abused the term until it can only be chucked out for good. Snorted the Smithsonian Institution's famed Ales Hrdlicka: "If all the anthropologists agreed with Montagu and dropped the word race from their vocabulary today, he would be back tomorrow with a claim that it was a good word and try to get it reinstated...
...soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak, the bounder on the make, the official who is in with powerful friends, the player who never plays the game but studies the rules to claim an advantage. ..." Space is left for the reader to fill with "names of local personages and special acquaintances." Noah and God are both baffled and discouraged...