Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DcMille films, the people are caricatures, the production lavish, and the crowd scenes awe-inspiring. Gary Cooper is the strong silent moral colonial, who raises not a single eyebrow when alone in the woods with Paulette Goddard. She is intensely feminine, idealistic, and a perfect complement for Cooper. Opposing them are completely villainous Howard Da Silva, and evil inscrutable Indian chief Boris Karloff. DcMille has chosen an Indian war of 1761 as the setting of "Unconquered" and has duly costumed hundreds of extras as colonials. British redcoats, and painted aborigines. Fearless colonial Gary Cooper twice frees beautiful bondslave Paulette Goddard...
...Perfect Marriage. Rodgers & Hammerstein are ebulliently happy that Oklahoma! brought them together (though they had known each other casually for years). Hammerstein's towering calm and Rodgers' agile dynamism nicely complement each other. Both agree that their partnership is a "perfect marriage." Rodgers, who for 25 years had worked with the late, absent-minded Lorenz Hart, is continually amazed by Hammerstein's punctualness (says a friend: "He is the only man I know who can tell you where he will be next August third...
Meanwhile, there were signs that the Media might yet run into heavy weather of a different sort. On her first trip, she had carried almost a full complement of passengers but only 887 tons of freight -13% of her capacity. And with the peak of the summer tourist season past, there was a noticeable drop in eastbound passengers. For the first time since the war, there were vacant bookings even on the Europe-bound Queens...
Brooks, hoping for a full complement of competitors in each of the eight races, remarked about the novice events that "they are always full of surprises by bringing out unknown ability...
When the Berwick sailed for home a few days after the party, her complement was minus a Royal Marine. Picked up by a shore patrol and shipped home, David has never seen Minnie again. But he has never stopped trying. Once he got back to Halifax as a stowaway on a troopship, but he was caught before he could see Minnie. In three other tries, always as a stowaway, he was caught once in Port Said (he had thought the ship bound for Halifax), twice in Le Havre...