Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hathaway-Monks approach to a purely fictional drama somehow suggests that the people on the screen are real and just happen to have been caught by a fortuitous camera. Actually, some of the film's G-men are the real McCoy. The picture serves up, as an added fillip, real FBI shots of pre-Pearl Harbor traffic in & out of the German Embassy...
...Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking in "obscene" literature. Thus last week DeVoto, out to expose Boston's behind-the-counter prudery, forced a test case on the ban. As an unscheduled fillip to these negotiations, a copy of John Wilder May's Law of Crimes (438 pp.) tumbled off the bookseller's shelf, crowned one of the cops...
Triumph Complete. News of the victory was an extra fillip to the British public, still savoring the destruction of the Scharnhorst. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser reported that his victory north of Norway was due in large part to the daring attack and pursuit of the German ship by cruisers and destroyers, which slowed the Scharnhorst and brought her to bay under the 14-inch guns of his flagship, Duke of York...
...people the appointment of rugged, incisive Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower as top commander in North Africa came as a dramatic fillip. Here was proof enough of the dominant potential of the U.S. in World War II: "Ike" Eisenhower might one day lead the invasion into the Festung Europa...
...profit motive, such as perhaps a $2 rise in the scrap ceiling and more freedom to manipulate different classifications at will under the ceiling can possibly alter this unfavorable trend. The new advertising campaign to the general public to contribute scrap will likely serve only as a temporary fillip...