Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above all, "Gentleman's Agreement" is a call for action that will be somewhat embarrassing to everyone except those who reject its message right from the beginning. The gentleman's agreement is a compact of silence, it says, and these who tacitly, even if unwillingly, accept anti-semitism as a part of the social system are as guilty as the active bigots. This point is made with a minimum of declamatory speeches: a burning issue has been put frankly before the eyes of the public, and the overall excellence of the movie as a movie should attract many besides...
...almost half a century the Court has been in the process of slowly altering its point of view. It struck down the "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution. It has made it exceedingly difficult for the Democratic party in the South to exclude Negroes from the party primaries except by threat or use of force. It has overruled convictions of both whites and Negroes which were secured without regard to due process...
...with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...
...Except for his good looks, which are considerably above average, Gregory Peck is an average young man who has made a fairly fast and dizzying jump to movie stardom. Since his arrival in Hollywood four years ago, he has carried a large part of the burden of an aggregate Hollywood investment of some $23 million, and has been instrumental in grossing a total of at least $50 million. With his ninth-and newest-picture, The Paradine Case (see below), he is in such demand that he has had to turn down starring roles in some 30 other pictures, most...
...cutting prices from 3 to 10% on about half its consumer products, an estimated saving of $50,000,000 a year for consumers. Said Wilson: "It's time industry and labor faced up to this danger. This building up of prices continually cannot take us anywhere except to disaster." G.E.'s price cut would not let much wind out of the inflation. But Charlie Wilson, by showing the way it could be done, had made an open and trenchant appeal to business for a price cut, to labor to stand on its wage-side. Unless...