Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coming year. Being a brunette, she will then go on to first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune to be blonde (an unlucky omen for anyone who has to first-foot for a household). This means that each time she arrives at a home bearing her good omens there will be a glass of wine and a slice of bun loaf awaiting...
Through the acts of two widely disparate individuals, the last trace of doubt about the nature of the enemy had disappeared. In Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk jumped to his death, the tragic figure of thousands of men of good will who stubbornly held to the theory that the liberal can work with the Communist. In Manhattan, a distraught Russian schoolteacher leaped from an upper window in the Soviet consulate to escape return to Russia. More than speeches, reports or eyewitness accounts of life under Communism, her act nakedly revealed the bitter despair behind the glowing promises in Communism's workers...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...
...reminder that Bob Hope spent years in vaudeville and on Broadway before he faded to a mere voice on the air. In this burlesque horse opera he adds gestures, double takes, struts and muggery to his redoubtable radio timing. The result is a picture that gives the fans more good Hope than they've had since his film life was first cluttered with crooners, sarongs, the Road-this-a-way and the Road-that...
...isolation and triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...