Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small arms and fieldpieces most Democrats and Republicans would be firing in next year's regular congressional elections. So far, most political wiseacres were betting on Mrs. Coffey to win in next week's election, but she had proved so ineffectual a campaigner that it might be close...
...Alsatian dog from which he is never separated. Tito's face suddenly grew very gentle. "You always remember him," he said. Stepping outside, we found Tigar lolling in the sun. Catching sight of his master, the dog leapt up and joyously wagged what remained of his close-cropped tail...
...sputtering through its collective white spade beard about a brand-new horror. At year's end Delacroix' place would be up for sale, and rumor had it that a nightclub was dickering for the property. The Société felt that Delacroix, who had been a close friend of Chopin, would conceivably have found le jazz hot even weirder than the art of his modernist descendents...
Last week, as the "great debate" came to a close, Editor Martin summed up: "For reasons of conscience, principle and conviction, I have been unable to follow the policy of the [owners]. I am sure [they] acted also for the same reasons." In record numbers, the voters of Forsyth County registered their choice: For Editor Martin and prohibition: 15,734; for Publisher Gray and repeal...
Jolson Sings Again begins prosaically enough where the first movie left off, but it soon becomes a fascinating look at Hollywood backstage. Producer Sidney Buchman gives a close explanation of how he pulled off his neatest trick-the synchronizing of Jolson's singing voice with Actor Larry Parks's gestures and lips. He has also decked out the whole exhibition with a brilliant display of soundstage techniques and gadgets. The result is a dizzy scramble of fact and fiction. In the sequences showing the filming of The Jolson Story, Larry Parks plays both himself and the "real life...