Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the theme of news-pigeons in Rothschild, the semaphore in Lloyd's-recurs in Producer Darryl Zanuck's major works is not entirely accidental. Famed for his knack of translating headlines into cinema, Zanuck sees history as a collection of front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business...
...things for Jack Benny, supply the indispensable young love. Miss Ross, in acting very badly and running away, gives Martha Raye, the substitute, a chance to be undignified and unladylike to her heart's content. And Bob (Bazooka) Burns overshadows the whole thing with his bucolic wisdom and his knack of getting in where he isn't wanted. Considered as vaudeville rather than as drama, "The Big Broadcast" is quite acceptable entertainment...
...gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric Swede foreman (Walter Brennan) who has been his best friend stays on to marry the dance-hall girl. It takes a full generation for Barney Glasgow to count...
From president to bat boy, the Dodgers have been famed as a team that always does the unexpected. Last week they paradoxically lived up to this reputation by doing the expected. As famed as their knack of getting caught between bases has been the Dodgers' knack of expressing themselves in puzzling ambiguities. Last week, Manager-elect Grimes maintained one tradition of the team while he saluted another. Said he: "I have to pinch myself to make believe it's not a dream...
...muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige (the team was unofficially ranked as national champion in 1934 and 1935, is considered likely to repeat this year) is the result of the addition of brains to its football teams. The knack which recent Minnesota teams have developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram's 75-yd. run last week was actually the ultimate refinement of a well-stated and thoroughly rehearsed process which became the pattern of Minnesota football...