Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia has taken a fine book on slums and their crime, and run it through the Hollywood kettle until most of its guts have been boiled out. The residue is kept well out of the standard murder movie level, however, by an infallible combination: fine photography and Humphrey Bogart...
John Derck, a new product of the star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from...
Axis Sally showed no emotion at the verdict, which carries a maximum penalty of death (no traitor has ever been executed in the U.S. for treason against the U.S.), or a minimum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But as she left the courtroom she indulged in a final bit of defiant dramatics and daffy reasoning that left newsmen wondering if she really knew what the trial had all been about. Said Traitor Gillars: "I wish those who judge me would be willing to risk their lives for America...
...hour-and-20-minute conference and stepped into a reception room on the fifth floor of the U.S. State Department, as pleased and smiling as though they had delivered a bouncing, 8-lb. boy. The Belgian ambassador, Baron Silvercruys, gave out a verbal bulletin: "It's all fine, agreed and everything...
...publicized as a jukebox composer-you know that hurt me." Furthermore, his use of the term "morally low" had nothing to do with personal morality; it just described how he felt when he found his music on the same shelf as that of the Cole Porters and Irving Berlins, fine fellows though they might...