Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woman of Talents. Stockholm society knows Mme. Kollontay as a slightly reconstructed aristocrat, an unusual linguist, a superb hostess. Her chinchilla cape makes women's eyes dilate; her little dinners make gourmets' eyes contract. As Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, where she has been stationed since 1930, she practices diplomacy with patience, wit and sagacity...
...cases until last week. Then the meningitis zoom which Mobile shares with the rest of the U.S. forced action.* With 23 cases in February, and new ones developing at the rate of eight a week, the city health department persuaded the Sisters of Charity (who run City Hospital on contract) to open up the hospital's empty wing to contagious cases...
Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
...herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
...anyone whom I was willing to trust to carry on this business without any attention on my part. Then the opportunity presented itself to make an association with Preston Sturges, whose work I have always admired for many years, but who has always been unavailable because of his contract with Paramount [which recently expired]. Here is one man in whom I have complete confidence. I am happy to turn over to him the full control and direction of all my motion picture activities...