Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population, including a great number of half-castes, products of frequent matings between French officials and Annamite girls...
Instead of casting a familiar Hollywood face in the role of Young (Spencer Tracy was considered, then rejected because of his frequent appearances as a Catholic priest), Zanuck "discovered" Dean Jagger, an able veteran of the Broadway stage, whose cinema appearances have been sporadic and inconspicuous. Jagger brings to his cumbersome, lengthy part such convincing dignity as to relegate to comparative minority the conventional romantic activity of Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, two harassed lovers who string along on the westward trek...
After this sudden display of fireworks had subsided the game followed early-October lines, with punting frequent and first downs few and far between. Before the half the Red and Gray penetrated to the Yardling ten on a series of linebucks, but '44 braced and took the ball when two passes fell incomplete...
Chief headache that God Bless America has brought on is a wave of snide anti-Semitism directed at Composer Berlin. Frequent are the letters to Collins berating him as an Irishman for swelling Jewish coffers. Not much more subtle have been the cracks of journalistic small fry such as W. Livingston Larned of the White Plains (N. Y.) Reporter, who recently bawled: "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light the Tin-Pan Alley tune mechanics and melody mongers.. . . 'Suppose we put a feller wavin' an American flag on the cover,' suggests...
...Betty for Rangers. Betty's sincere, naïve, yet strangely adult mind has made her as popular as the paymaster on the Paramount, lot, brought her a seven-year contract which now pays $100 weekly. She supports her family in a small whitewashed bunga low, responds to frequent touches by broke friends and relations. Her greatest extravagance to date is a pair of $3.98 cowboy boots which she used to wear continuously until schoolmates' jibes forced her to abandon them...