Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of an unwed mother. Ordinarily, when a movie tackles such a delicate subject, it strangles on sobs and special pleading or is scissored to death by censorship. As produced by a new independent unit, organized by Cinemactress Ida Lupino and husband Collier Young, it emerges as an earnest and unadorned account of a tragic problem...
Such negative virtues are not quite enough. Miss Foley's contributors are earnest and well-intentioned, but nothing emerges boldly or sharply from their work. Lacking individuality or even eccentricity, most of the stories settle in the reader's mind like a grey blur. Though young in years, the writers seem old and weary in spirit...
Trust Fund. In Dallas, Earnest S. Powell told police that two hold-up men had settled, in lieu of cash, for a $15 check...
...Field. The question was whether it would be a show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice before-but the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points...
...general reaction to the plan was understandably cool. Some of the U.S. press felt that the Quakers, in their earnest search for a true realism based on the possibility of evoking the goodness in man, had been unrealistically premature. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "All men are not yet Quakers; if they were, we might more easily repose our faith in one another's virtue and good will. In the meantime, we seem fated to base our national policies on the sorrowful facts that it takes one to make a war, two to make a peace...