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More recently Mr. Ford has shaken his fist at the federal tax on undistributed profits in much the same way he opposed the N. R. A. monster. Such "ramshackle legislation" he lays to financiers who aim to tax independent companies like Ford out of existence. He disapproves of the tax because of the way the money is spent, for in his opinion it provides no purchasing power nor market for industry...
...evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen on the screen-tempts Maine...
...Schwab laughed. But loyal President Eugene Grace grew white as chalk. Eyes flashing, fist clenched, he said quietly: "Mr. Schwab has not outlived his usefulness to this corporation. His retirement would be a grave mistake." He stalked menacingly toward Stockholders Gilbert & Coshland, was restrained from snoot-punching by fellow officials...
...fixed. Now, nurtured by Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded to promote is returning to its rightful prominence. The beetling brow and clenched fist of the ward-heeler are lost on the radio audience; his persuasion must now be based entirely on what the says, not on what he does, and such demands an ability to express ideas in clear spoken English...
...Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. Sarah Sanders sued Edward Sanders for divorce on the ground that "while he never actually struck me he would go around slamming his fist against doors and saying: 'I wish...