Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre business, box office, as you no doubt know, is largely determined by names and exploitation. Therefore when quite a few of my patrons mention that they saw the reviews in TIME and have been influenced in coming to see certain pictures which lacked both star names and noise- I, and there are probably other exhibitors who have benefited in the same way, am definitely grateful to you and to your movie critic, whose writings are not colored by blurbs but are sincere and impartial and accepted as that by the movie-going public...
...takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern womanhood, relieved his feelings by grabbing America's 60 Families, slamming the book to the floor, stamping his big feet...
...pastoral tasks last week with vigor which amazed observers, he insisted that his huskiness of voice, his loss of weight from 200 pounds to 100 pounds or less, were the result of a recent attack of influenza. In Chicago, Dr. Morris Fishbein, perennial spokesman for U. S. Medicine, expressed doubt that Dean Noe had lived on oranges for a year, cracked: "The stomach has no religion...
...trifling slip, no doubt, it yet suffices...
...lives of its two-hundred-twenty odd members. The Harvard Student Union acts and learns by acting, though of course it cannot be sure of its "preparation" to "cope with . . . real life" always; no one can. But let us not, as George Santayana has urged, "come to doubt in the lazy freedom of revery, whether two and two make four...