Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breyer, who came to see the picture merely "in the line of duty," left the projection booth one of the film's biggest boasters. "I guess this proves," he stated, "that the Hollywood movie monopoly has been broken once...
...Grand Illusion. "For us in Britain, the 19th Century ended amid the glories of the Victorian era, and we entered upon the dawn of the 20th in high hope . . . Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together. . . We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us ... In the name of ordered but unceasing progress we saluted the Age of Democracy ... It was to ... tasks...
...from me. Nobody wanted my bars or the bowl of pudding they shoved at me through the slot." But things would be different from now on for the actor who had been a $3,250-a-week idol of U.S. bobby-soxers: "I'm typed-a character. I guess I'll have to bear that all the rest of my life...
Said Editor Paul T. Busselle, who joined the Times 20 years ago and succeeded Townes: "I guess people are right when they laugh at me for calling it the 'news paper game.' It isn't a game any more, it's too much of a business...
...been here since 1897 and we never had any real trouble with her," he says. "Course they had to rebore some of the wheels back in '38. Stopped her for a week then. Old lady down on Summer Street called. Said she couldn't live without the clock, but guess she managed all right...