Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus an improvement over previous films of the gangster type. Those critics who do not find the diminutive James attractive will rejoice to learn that, after being pursued as usual by an incredible number of beautiful women, Cagney weds the least attractive of the lot...
...that no matter what kind of emergency the country gets into, all laws must be strictly constitutional. It says "extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional powers." (He put down the decision, lighted another cigaret.) That's a very broad statement. During the War Congress passed a lot of extraordinary legislation but none of it was argued before the Supreme Court...
Here are a lot of resolutions sent me by businessmen promising to live up to code standards, but most of them add "as long as we are able." Even a well-meaning businessman will have to cut wages if the 10% of chiselers in every business force him by cutting prices. Voluntary co-operation is hopeless. Here's a columnist-saying that he hopes the death of NRA will end a lot of industrial confusion. I hope he is right. And here is an editorial printed in a nation-wide chain of newspapers giving thanks that "at last...
...strike. Prime issue: seniority rights. Promptly Mr. Black shut the White plant, published an advertisement complimenting the strikers on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." Then seeing the strike pickets idle, he bought baseballs, gloves, bats so that they could play ball in a vacant lot. For those who did not play ball he rented a nearby bowling alley. Meanwhile the strikers got out White brooms, White rubbish cans, kept the sidewalks spick & span...
...cinemaddicts who have given up hope of finding a new kind of musical. It is not really about anything and nothing happens-a practically perfect formula. The set-up is Edward Everett Horton, Dolores Del Rio and Pat O'Brien, behaving with notable insincerity among a lot of puzzling yellow stuff which O'Brien finds to be Mexican sunlight. There are two menaces. One is a blonde (Glenda Farrell) who wants to marry O'Brien. The other is a comment which O'Brien, as editor of a magazine called Manhattan Madness, embodied in a review...