Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best a stopgap, may explain why in the midst of a great war the News concentrates on local affairs. But it will give Clark Beach some kind of national and foreign coverage in case he cannot get what he wants from...
...into the snow without rubbers or muffler, but rarely catches cold. Despite his absentmindedness, he is scrupulous about fulfilling obligations, never breaks a promise. He used to make it a rule never to read manuscripts submitted to him for criticism by budding philosophers. But applicants learned how to get around his rule: they brought manuscripts to his office. Dewey peeked at them through a crack in the door, invariably melted and let them in. Having promised to read and criticize a manuscript, he always did so-even if he sent it back to the wrong address...
...this publicity went, it did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington no harm at all. But there was a chance that the picture might get the Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...
...Your Toes (Warner) is Rodgers & Hart's romping 1936 Broadway musical success turned into a movie that gets its leaden foot in its mouth at the outset, spends the rest of the time coyly failing to get it out again. The story concerns one Phil Dolan 3rd (Eddie Albert), called Junior, who drops out as the juvenile in a hoofing act to write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs...
People who like their melodrama raw and in big gulps get their fill. Those who would swap a third-rate Hitchcock any night for a first-rate Laughton get an even break...