Word: deeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite their hatred of Russia's rule of terror, Fainsod says, the emigres "continue to cherish a deep patriotic attachment to the homeland which they have abandoned...
...John Sherman Cooper: About as popular as a Republican can be in Kentucky, the courtly Cooper last year carried a state that Ike lost. But he will be in deep trouble if Alben Barkley decides to run (TIME, Sept...
...last week Howard Hughes, who has had plenty of troubles with RKO and other of his business ventures (TIME, Feb. 23), was hip deep in trouble with his successful electronic company. The top echelon of men who had built up the company had quit, and the Air Force was frantically trying to keep the quarrel from slowing up the building of fighter planes. Hughes Aircraft's rise is partly the work of a onetime Ford industrial management expert named Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who became vice president and assistant general manager, and two of the nation's top electronics...
Based on Adria Locke Langley's 1945 bestseller, the film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting...
Raoul Walsh's direction keeps the film moving briskly and Cagney dominates the film in the grand manner of the 19305, when he was Hollywood's top tough-guy star. Though he looks and sounds far more Broadway than Deep South, he is thoroughly persuasive as a fast-talking politico equally able to bamboozle a backwoods crowd or to make a deal with big-city gangsters. Good shot: Cagney's shrewd mixture of friendliness and contempt as he joshes his neighbors into turning a broken-down house into a honeymoon cottage for himself and his bride...