Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeats in Memphis and Shelby County. Since Boss Crump controls some 50,000 votes, more than a quarter of the total necessary to win a Democratic primary in Tennessee where a Democratic nomination is as good as an election, it was not surprising that Senator McKellar should confer at length with this fountain of political fortune...
...Evangelical Manifesto, Nazi spellbinders use the terms positive and negative Christianity "in the manner in which the truth is withheld from a person who is ill"-i. e., to mask the Government's real efforts "to deChristianize the German people." National Priest. After quoting Nazi Party leaders at length, the Manifesto concludes: "When, within the compass of the Nazi view of life, an anti-Semitism is forced on the Christian that binds him to hatred of the Jew, the Christian injunction to love one's neighbor still stands. . . . The Evangelical conscience is most heavily burdened by the fact...
...desk I have two letters to editors of New York papers which he wrote for me to use in approaching them for a job. At the time he went to great trouble to impress me with the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of reporters throughout the length and breadth of the countryside would give their eyeteeth to possess them. . . . And here was I, Destiny's tot, getting them for absolutely nothing. Before that evening was over they cost...
...circumstances almost as complex as that which befalls its heroine accounts for the nature of Suzy. Because Mutiny on the Bounty, an enormously long and expensive picture, was the No. 1 smash hit of last season, producers this season think that all long and expensive pictures will be hits. Length has another advantage in that it helps combat what producers call the "double bill evil." An additional reason for Suzy's length is that the Legion of Decency would not have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow...
...discussion of the report at the annual Paramount meeting last month, though Mr. Kennedy was understood to have urged that a copy be sent to each & every security holder. Finally the company offered to show any of its interested owners a prepared summary, which quoted Mr. Kennedy at length but omitted confidential figures and some of its author's more acidulous opinions of Paramount personalities. This summary was not released for publication but it did not take the Press long to find obliging stockholders who would accompany newshawks to Paramount's inner offices in Manhattan. Thus last week...