Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richards Watts Jr., back from OWIing in the British Isles, wrote another farewell piece as the New York Herald Tribune's drama critic, prepared to join ex-Times Critic Brooks Atkinson in Chungking...
Those who expect Gracie to sing in this picture will be disappointed. Not until the last scene does she join with Woolley in a brief unprofessional warble. But the show has a smart story (from the late novelist Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive), smart acting by nearly everybody, smart handling by Director John Stahl (Back Street, The Immortal Sergeant...
...Cambridge, at Yale on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (Rhodes scholarship in reverse), then at New York's Columbia University. In the U.S. he acquired, besides an education, a wife. He worked in Wall Street (as a messenger for J. W. Seligman Co.), returned to London in 1932 to join the Economist. He became editor in 1938, when...
...never tells her anything (she usually fails to see the point of what he does tell her). He dallies for a few months in the Hollywood home of an actress, an old friend, and learns that he cannot write a play. His elder son, Jim, quits Harvard to join the army and marry a girl Madge does not approve. But on these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson's memories, turns them into vivid, detailed, often moving episodic stories. So skilfully does Marquand recapture the mood of middle-class U.S. life during the last...
Dutch doctors have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland's Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart that they would have no part of a medical society that sponsored "deportation of the insane and sick persons and the sterilization of healthy people...