Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing a blackmailer south of the border, Montgomery clips his words and blanks his stares whenever possible. Funny business is the theme, and six grand is the pay-off. A carnival and merry-go-round provide a unique backdrop for the routine slug-fest that Hollywood associates with the underworld; and despite some stereotyped aspects, the story has few lapses. Montgomery dead-pans adequately and playing opposite is Wanda Hendrix who does her best to appear Mexican and inscrutable, providing good contrast for the know-it-all Montgomery...
...faced Ray Gene Cinnamon, 19, a shy boy with a big grin, from Garber, Okla., was named 1947 Star Farmer of America (prize: $1,000). Ray Gene has been showing prize-winning livestock at the Royal show for the past seven years. In 1944 his entry took the grand champion steer award, which, together with two other prize-winning animals, netted him more than $9,000. That year Ray Gene had to call in an accountant to help on his income...
...committee's verdict: the papers were spurious and Horn was a fraud. "Beyond a doubt," said the Quarterly, "they will become collectors' items . . . treasured with comparable fabrications on the grand scale." Why had the papers been forged? In Topeka last week, 77-year-old William Horn said nothing. His wife told newsmen that he had suffered a stroke. As to the Horn Papers, he was "no longer interested...
...past than an Oedipus' or an Antigone's. And with a temerity as notable as her talent, Actress Anderson (Macbeth, The Three Sisters) brought those emotions spectacularly out into the open. She flung aside both classic control and realistic restraint. She played Medea half in the grand manner, half in the Grand Guignol manner; she used every wile of body and face, every art of voice and gesture, to produce something possibly mixed or impure-but definitely, undeniably overwhelming...
...both an education more liberal than the GE program and also of what the Center calls "the best Sunday night meal for forty cents in Cambridge." When the room fills with saris, turbans, and all conceivable accents from Upper Mongolian to Lower Californian, Thayer house rivals the lobby of Grand Hotel for international flavor. A hopeful not for tomorrow lies in the possibility that the good will and understanding that pervades Center gatherings today will hold over when many of the students return to lead their nations in world affairs...