Word: hell-bent
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...which he grew up. Having become an officer, a hero and the accepted equal of white Europeans, Brett Charles (Gordon Heath) has a new and far less subservient conception of himself and his race. When he takes some trifling liberties, the Senator (Charles Waldron) gets so blazing mad, so hell-bent on punishing the boy, that he pins on him the theft of a missing watch...
Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...
...Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more, he was on his way to report the Allied occupation of Syria when a truck got out of control and did something no bomb or bullet had been able to do-invalided him home to Australia...
...airlines were hell-bent last week on the biggest and fastest expansion in world aviation history. Within a few months airline operators expect to triple the number of planes they fly, double their personnel of skilled pilots and ground workers, extend their routes to every corner of the world, triple their air-freight tonnage...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...