Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curley is an orator with power in his voice reminiscent of William Jennings Bryan. After one of his court convictions, he shouted to a lecture hall jammed with adorers. "That isn't James Michael Curley they have lying in the gutter. It is you ... and you ... and you." As his finger pointed almost accusingly at faces before him, even the disinterested could feel the impact of the psychology that keeps his graft and corruption almost above criticism...
...isn't of her parents that I'm going for to sing...
...Millions, of foreigners . . . would see these horrible things and wonder if it isn't true about Americans being so crazy...
...whole, it all seems rather meaningless. Tyrone ends up by drifting off to parts unknown, while his audience still isn't exactly sure whether he really has found what he has been looking for all this time. It would seem that "The Razor's Edge," though it's had a pretty expensive honing, still isn't too sharp...
Century-Fox) is a dragging, uninspired trifle in fancy dress about "women's rights" in the late igth Century. The plot consists of one pale joke (in the 18705, typists seem to have been referred to as "typewriters"). It isn't much fun - despite the Technicolor, some hitherto unpublished Gershwin tunes. Dick Haymes's pleasant baritone, and Betty Grable's incomparable pin-up legs...