Word: flimsiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century. I believe that this action will contribute immeasurably to the future development and progress of a nation which needs and deserves encouragement. More than this, it will tend to preserve the sovereignty of Liberia against the cupidity of foreign nations which would like nothing better than the flimsiest excuse to treat Liberia as Japan is acting toward China and Italy toward Abyssinia...
...show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian music-hall star who used to be her partner in a sister-act. Changing the color of her hair and assuming...