Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
...mechanical end that lures him, for he is an awful dud at such things. It must be some bit of the romance and glamor of the "high iron" in his blood. His mother tends to blame it on his Uncle Rome who is a conductor and a mighty fine man. Uncle Rome might have been a big shot in some line, but he liked trains and never got around to anything else...
...than South Station, his erstwhile favorite. A second-rate poet whose name Vag cannot recall likened the world to a room in the house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds of his childhood again--and he sees not just one isolated mile of the "run but the whole thing, hundreds of miniature miles of it. There...
...whole the team stands out among other League outfits for its clever heading, polished to a fine point by Carr, and for its fast outside positions which have consistently outmaneuvered the enemy backs and led the Crimson scoring attack. Until the M.I.T. match the centers were weak in leading winning plays, and while it was outstanding in midfield it lacked finish in the end zones...
Although based on an indifferent, disjointed Fannie Hurst plot, which would normally dawdle listlessly from one episode to another, "Four Daughters" is a fine, almost a great picture. This is primarily because it uses brilliantly these disconnected incidents and scenes to create the indefinable and intangible something commonly called "mood": here a sentimental, nostalgic mood comprehensive enough to include both joy and sorrow. This is also because it includes unusually moving and sympathetic performances from all of the principals, most of whom are newcomers to featured parts. Particularly outstanding is John Garfield's portrayal of the self-pitying, cynical Mickey...