Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed to Fort Benton, Mont., 3,575 miles from salt water. (Round trip fare between St. Louis and Fort Benton was $300; the menu included smoked buffalo tongue, bear and elk; profits were as high as $40,000 a single voyage; the captains got $1,200 a month...
...produce, has a Jerome Kern score, throstle-throated Deanna Durbin, and the evident fine intention of turning out a cinemusical as full of sunlit Americana as Oklahoma!. As such it deserves a pleasant fate, and may earn it at the box office. But it can hardly fare well with critics, even the most generous...
...again. He stepped on the running board of a passing car and scrambled into the seat beside the startled driver, Manhattan Lawyer Robert P. Lord. "Keep quiet," Mike said, "I'm going with you." He gave Lawyer Lord directions for driving to Newark, left him $2 in cab fare, but took $8 in bills, a $333 check and Lord's car. "I bet you think I'm a heel," Mike said. "Now beat it. You'll find your car tomorrow at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street." When Mike showed up again in L's Tavern...
...unloaded everything but the Los Angeles city system on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Los Angeles took to the auto as did few other cities. Huntington could not make his Los Angeles Railway pay. Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died in 1927, the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, as trustees for the Huntington estate, became operators of the system, held on until the war boom in traction companies brought the chance to sell...
Farewell is done to a fare-thee-well by everybody from the costumer to the excellent cast. Sets that should look threadbare have seldom looked so rat-ridden. The neon sign outside a crummy dive is almost too properly defective. There is an enthusiastic appetite for everything possibly sinister about a big city and its people. The makers of the film go farther with their realism: they try to make sensations and states of mind visual. Best: the drug sequence, presenting through double exposure an indecipherable web of confusion and dreamlike memory...