Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands but a shiny roadster that he piled up against a tree. In the cinema Joe fares better...
...chartered all available vessels to evacuate some 17,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe, but labor trouble delayed the sailings. For every U. S. seaman shipping to war zones the National Maritime Union demanded a $250 bonus, $25,000 insurance. Ships finally got under way when the Maritime Commission promised that any bonuses later agreed upon would be retroactive...
...prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral like Curry's bully Ajax. Others who sometimes wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such...
While U. S. correspondents in Europe's capitals were wondering how to get news back to their papers (see col. 3), at home their editors were pondering how to play what news they got. Two conflicting impulses made the U. S. press sound like a man arguing with himself. One was a voice of passion urging him to show his indignation over Führer Hitler's aggression. The other was a voice of reason counseling detachment to keep...
...They find little to suppress, but cause long delays that madden newswriters in hours of crisis. The night the Athenia went down they were all in bed. had to be routed out and brought blear-eyed to their posts before reading could begin. By that time radio commentators had got their own texts censored, had told late listeners in America the whole story...