Word: itemization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Departed: Hon. Michael Astor, little-noted 31-year-old son of much-quoted chatterbox Lady Astor; from the U.S. after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at the . . . tea, one of the guests thanked the speaker profusely. The English noblewoman responded with a sudden kick right on her admirer's posterior. The guest stiffened,then, with a gale of laughter, turned and kicked the Lady right back...
...producers make patently clear at the outset, this picture is straight from the annals of the Chicago Times, depicting events that actually happened, and filmed in the authentic locals. Northside 777 is not the weather bureau but the home of a much more important item--a Wronged Woman, who will pay $5000 for the information that will free her son. Fascinated that such a situation could actually exist, and further stupified that the man was really cleared, Hollywood has gone overboard to make its point. The energetic exploits of a Chicago Times reporter, James Stewart, have been turned into...
Although filming real-life stories undoubtedly saves on that expensive cinematic item, imagination, it produces troublesome shortcomings. A documentary approach saves on sets and set-pieces, but the endings, as in real life, are either unconvincing or else must be picked over to be good box-office material. To show the mother scrubbing the floors in the end would be cinematic suicide, even though it's the truth...
...newsmag was TIME; the item was stolen from a confidential cable to its editors which relayed the London rumor (which TIME did not print) and concluded: "We have no reason to believe it is true...
Train fare to away football games is the only kind of aid the Band is seeking. Manager Joseph J. Borgatti, Jr. '45 has asked that these allocations be made an annual item on the University budget...