Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calmness of the very old. She had lived to see her country at war with the Russians (1854), the Boers (1898), the Germans, Austrians and Turks (1914), and then the Germans again. When a bomb fell near her home last winter, she told friends: "This young fellow Hitler isn't going to frighten me," and went on knitting for soldiers and listening to war news. Last week, still not frightened, she died...
...even of the "comfortably well-off" portions of the population is likely to be more than a little rocky. In the first place taxes are nibbling and will bite off even more of the incomes and the established fortunes which support the rich. A ten thousand dollar income just isn't going to be ten thousand dollars when the government gets through with it, and the owner is likely to decide to reduce his budget by buying Junior a state university education instead of a Harvard...
...Squire of Eliot House is leaving! The news isn't exactly a surprise, but there were those of us who were hoping that the powers that be in such matters would relax their rules and that R.B. himself would decide not to resign...
Myrna Loy blinks sweetly through hell and high water, and if she isn't completely oblivious to what's going on, she is well on her way. Asta, the poor man's Rin-Tin-Tin, is back again, but to most moviegoers his cute trick of looking for stray fire-hydrants is about as worn out as the hydrants must be by this time...
...Sing Another Chorus," despite its many defects, doesn't have a single redeeming feature. Poorly constructed and weakly east, it started out with two strikes and the direction added a third. Mischa Auer tries so hard to be funny that he isn't. Proper timing will permit you to escape this and still catch an excellent cartoon and Endicott Peabody II on the Movietone News All-American...