Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most films of its breed (e.g., Colonel Blimp), Guinea Pig has an earnest and sometimes moving integrity. Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...
Sleeping Car to Trieste (Rank; Eagle Lion) has plenty of plot, but hardly enough steam to keep it moving. Like most British suspense films involving a train with a Balkan destination, it is compounded of political assassination and intrigue, seasoned with romantic love and good-natured kidding of British innocents abroad...
Life with Father Dickens was a succession of unpredictable tempests. He supported not only his own family but also his father & mother, his dead brother's widow and five children, and in later years his mistress, Actress Ellen Ternan, and their child. To keep all in room & board, Dickens lived in a frenzy of ceaseless labor, which was intensified by his sharing in the multifarious experiences and sensations of all the characters in all his novels. Extracts from letters, written while he was busy with The Old Curiosity Shop, illustrate what he meant when he said, "Men have been...
...says Author Dobie, know how to play dead, disguise themselves, hunt in groups; they are said to climb to the same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first...
Student. In Memphis, William Socrates, pleading guilty to stealing a clarinet, insisted that he "only intended to keep it till I could learn to play...