Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dealing in some detail with many an economic problem as related to the life of the U. S. student, the report comes to its climax as follows...
Defense. Because "the charges [of the volunteer City Affairs Committee] consist almost entirely of generalities without specification or detail," the facts and figures with which Mayor Walker interspersed his reply, gave it a strong semblance of satisfactory refutation. Charged with indifference to police corruption, he could show that during his administration 321 officers were dismissed from the force. He introduced a letter from Chief City Magistrate Corrigan to prove that he was "dissatisfied with conditions existing in the courts," now under investigation, one year ago. Where facts failed, the Mayor used sophistry. How could he find evidence of bribery...
With that anecdote current last week in the film industry, critics wondered if an executive had asserted that The Public Enemy was not going to be anything like Little Caesar. In detail The Public Enemy is nothing like that most successful of gangster pictures, but its central idea is identical-dissection of the criminal mind by reconstruction of one criminal's career. You see James Cagney as a tough boy led into petty thieving. He moves higher, into the bigger business of robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until...
...have to cut out such minute descriptions and detail or many will be the homes and offices bereft of the breadwinner who will run to the nearest Cook's office and book passage for such adventurous places...
...Escape. After a week of excited, contradictory news despatches, it was possible to reconstruct in detail the departure of the Royal family from Madrid, an event to rank with Louis XVI's flight to Varennes, Napoleon's departure for Elba...