Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martin approved the bipartisan foreign policy of Vandenberg. But Taft had voted against many of the instruments of that policy: the World Bank and the World Fund, reciprocal trade agreements, the British loan. The continuation of such national policies could crack open and vitiate U.S. foreign policy...
...winter of 1942-43 the world heard the heart-heightening story: that ill-equipped Red troops had trapped and smashed 22 crack Nazi divisions along the Volga. This film wrings considerable suspense from a tactical explanation of how the battle was won. War films made by capitalists usually tell their stories from the common soldier's point of view. The Russians, concentrating on their brasshats, have managed to pump excitement into a series of scenes where most of the characters address one another as "Comrade General" and spend most of their time standing morosely around map tables discussing high...
Living up to the brilliant promise of its title in every respect, "The Thrill of Brazil" provides a visually and vocally irritating intermission between "Crack-Up," inexplicably billed as the second feature, and the pictures of the Army-Notre Dame game. Keenan Wynn, one of the funniest and most amiable of Hollywood's products, manages to save some scenes. But the concerted opposition of Tito Guizar, Ann Miller, and Evelyn Keyes proves too much for him, and even he is overcome by the morass of bad songs, bad production numbers, and typical South American musical plot, complete with mismated couples...
...Crack-Up," however, features an adequate melodramatic plot and some first class direction. Pat O'Brien's train ride, under the pressure of trying to remember a night lost when he was drugged, makes a phantoin scene of great tension and force. But the rest of the picture is anticlimactic. It's all about O'Brien's efforts to clear himself of a murder while simultaneously busting open a huge fraud having to do with forgeries of great art masterpieces. This is the sort of thing that Humphrey Bogart shows up in every year or two, to everybody's huge...
...small number of the 290 commuters probably 30 at the maximum--will get a crack at rooms now available in College, as vacancies turned up over the past three weeks will be offered via the lottery method to men now living at home, Robert B. Watson '37, Assistant Dean of the College, announced yesterday...