Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Whitman totted up the results of the crusade. They had sold over 3,000 tickets, almost wiped out their season deficit. The team had won its game with Eastern Oregon 48 to 20. And the Walla Walla alumni had promised to raise enough money to pay half scholarships ($175) for 20 athletes a year...
...fares, effective at month's end, will make many rail fares double competing bus fares. For the first time, railroad coach fares in many cases will be more than airline fares, e.g., New York-Cleveland: $19.33 by rail...
...youth of the cinema, long before the first feature-length film, the U.S. screen was as free as the U.S. press. Then, in 1907, Chicago gave birth to movie censorship. Last week, after decades of kowtowing by a timid film industry, enemies of censorship made a strong bid to end the reign of censors now entrenched in seven states and 50 cities...
...there is any rhetoric or fancy writing that puts you off at the beginning or the end," says Ernest Hemingway in his introductory puff to this novel of Italy in the '30s, "just ram through it." Hemingway is wrong in his warning about where the "rhetoric" is to be found-it comes in the middle, and in cascades-but his advice is still worth taking...
...Wore a Yellow Ribbon" makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...