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...movie is a slow-going, vulgarly conceived, poorly executed melodrama about love in the tropics with all the usual background of palm trees, native uprisings, buried treasure, virile torsos, and dishonest fellows. In the end of course Love and Honesty are triumphantly rampant on a field of Carribbean blue. The only good thing about the picture is the technicolor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/27/1943 | See Source »

...wanted the essential secret of U.S. enterprise, the quality within it that brought forth on the continent a new nation, a new birth of liberty, and with them a new wealth beyond the richest visions of the old. Thus the 132,000,000 Americans, honest and dishonest, good, bad and humanly both, had become the only people of the earth's two billion who could save the hopes of the world in the simple struggle to save their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plans and the People | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...efficient and honest municipal government which has arisen as a result of the Cocoanut Grove fire, will be futile until the American public realizes that it is itself responsible for inefficient and dishonest city government. This particular idea has been recounted time and again, but with the glaring example of this horrible fire before the people it should be drummed into them that efficient city government can only be had with efficient and honest governing bodies. The people must come to the realization that higher salaries must be paid to city officials so that: (1) men with greater ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/8/1942 | See Source »

...significance of high-crossed t's and un-dotted i's, the Marseille system, basically, studies the consistency or inconsistency of style, the degree of integration revealed in an individual's handwriting; rates the subject accordingly as: 1) very good risk; 2) fairly reliable; 3) dishonest; 4) poor budgeter, probably harassed by bill collectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Handwriting As Character | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...bottom: very good risk, fairly reliable, dishonest, poor budgeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Handwriting As Character | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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