Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith replied: "I admit what he charges, that Congress does not lead; I justify what he bemoans, that Congress only follows. It is indeed the primary business of Congress to discern and follow the popular will, when there is a popular will, and to do nothing where there isn't, save to talk around and about until there is a popular will." The audience cheered that...
...Marines of Wake and Midway, but making pictures like "To the Shores of Tripoli" is no way to pay off the debt. In fact, a few more like it and the Marines will be the laughing as well as the fighting stock of the nation. The acting isn't bad--John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott have no trouble giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead of the Marines making...
After midnight and three doses of wilted but invigorating ice cream, Vag decided to go home. "Isn't it wonderful?" he meditated. "Four more of these and my feet will be flat enough...
Actors' Equity has modified its contracts, high-priced actors have offered to work at lower salaries; but it still isn't easy. Summer theaters, accustomed to drawing audiences from within a 50-mile radius, can now draw them only from within a five-or ten-mile one. Of roughly 75 theaters, a good third have already called it quits...
Back in Hollywood from selling war bonds in the northwest, Lana Turner, who had kissed each purchaser of $50,000 worth, declared after mature consideration: "A kiss at $50,000 really is pretty expensive. Believe me, it isn't worth...