Word: confounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...
...Confound their politics...
Then last year the shadow arose. New York judges high and low, who the people were sure were crooked, began to be proved crooked. The power of Tammany in which Jean Norris had always trusted seemed insufficient to confound the inquisitors. Jean Norris' turn approached...
...plan charge that, since redistributing firms will support their stocks during the process of redistribution, another artificial phase will be added to the Exchange's famed "free and open market." They warn that specialists on the Exchange, angry at the loss of potential business, may confound price movements. They say that, theoretically at least, the Exchange may no longer boast its historic attitude: "No Securities For Sale." They warn that if stocks collapse after being sold at prices formally approved by the Exchange, the public will lose all faith in the country's most famed market...
...individual transport companies had not gone far in their experimentation and practice when the need for coordination became evident. There was costly duplication of ground equipment and labor. There was a variety of practices which threatened to confound the interstate flyer of the future. Moreover, a central administrator was needed to conserve the few frequency channels assigned by the Federal Radio Commission to air transport operators...