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Monday-morning quarterbacks, eager to gloat over successful predictions, equally anxious to justify errors in judgment, last week suppressed their crowings. Cause for their silence was a startling list of Saturday upsets...
...Miserables (Twentieth Century). When he arrived in Manhattan to gloat over public response to his two latest works (see p. 53), Producer Darryl Zanuck last week told the Press: "The most notable trend in picture-making has been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result...
...relatively easy. A little concentration before April Hours and finals will bring the average student through safely and without too much trouble. The person who enjoys having his head stuffed with unique formulas which in some magic fashion tie themselves up with simplified and inverted and mangled sentences may gloat over the course. For the average person the April Moon will compete heavily with logic for interest. Application is apt to bring an A; indifference is apt (for the sake of circumlocution) to bring trouble...
...Citizen Roosevelt had no lust to gloat over the wintry country he was soon to rule. At his side sat little child-faced William Hartman Woodin, soon to be master of the greatest treasury in the world. At his side sat professorial Raymond Moley, raised from the classroom to the councils of the great, but they had few thoughts of pomp and circumstance. The ruthless pressure of events gave them time to consider but one hard fact: that in four days the bank deposits of twelve states had been seized by the frozen hand of Depression...
...Department is absolutely right in its refusal to release the gruesome Signal Corps official photographs of mutilations, putrified dead and other war horrors to amuse the morbidly curious. It seems unbelievable that the people whom these men died so horribly to defend would want to gloat over these pictures and ridicule these heroic dead, or that a publisher would exploit them...