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...ought to have prevented the failure of Bank of United States, cost what it might. One side said it would have been worth $50,000,000 to prevent fear from spreading through the ranks of the financially ignorant. The other side said that in helping the weak the strong impair their own strength, and hence the fundamental strength of the country. Agreed: It depends upon the particular case...
...verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room. But none of its unlikelihoods impair the plot. So finely realized in Good Intentions are handsome photography and acting and directing that the familiar fictions are almost good again. Best shot: a crook who has just come out of Sing Sing walking and talking in his sleep...
...confidence in which they were made to the American delegation in London is broken, it would materially impair the possibility of future successful negotiations between this Government and other nations...
...authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly as the Wet and Catholic Press have been doing...
...even with his brother, who tried to buy her off, and partly for the money. Goulding's dialog has shopworn stretches, but much of it is convincing and subtle. He has varied cinematic formulas enough to make The Devil's Holiday artistically effective, but not enough to impair its popular appeal. It remains a program picture, but a far better one than the average. Best shot: Nancy Carroll's thoughts about her husband revealed to the audience by a slip of the tongue when she is back in a Chicago hotel room trying to get drunk on champagne...