Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic openly wrote to William Randolph Hearst: "My immediate purpose ... is to suggest that you retire from active journalism. You are an elderly man. . . . Why not turn over the reins to someone else and enjoy the sunset years? . . . Things are going rather badly for your daily newspapers. . . . Even in cities where your papers have shown slight [circulation] gains, their competitors have run away from them by many thousands. . . In advertising revenue, also, your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude...
...value of what so resombles childish buffoonery as the admonition issued by a gatekeeper in this play that the invading army must not charge his gate, for it is only made of cloth. If one is appreciative of the super-subtlety of this sort of thing, he will probably enjoy the acting of Clarence Derwent and Constance Carpenter, which is in the same vein...
Main thing Domini and Boris have in common, conveniently for Producer Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes...
...deals with. His method is to take up chronologically the administration of each president as seen from the window of the College Kitchen. According to him the College prospered in direct relation to the state of the culinary arts. Whether you believe his thesis or not, you will certainly enjoy his treatment...
...live for it, although I'm not a 'night club girl.' I'm really an 'outdoor girl,' terribly fond of horseback riding and swimming. I thoroughly dislike New York with all its noise and excitement. Great Neck on Long Island, where I own a home is where I enjoy staying...