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Starring Joan Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...
...must make a Catholic of Charles," said Lady Marchmain in a matter-of-fact way. Ryder thought it was all the most shocking hypocrisy-especially when his drunken friend Sebastian fled desperately to North Africa and took up with the most squalid society he could find...
...Chicago bailiffs wasted time asking them to take the witness stand), their children looked at comic books or played with blocks just down the hall. Children were still the real victims. Thousands of them would learn to accept the impermanence of their parents' marriages as natural and matter-of-fact. Instead of having two parents they would now have one - or three, or four; they would learn to be visitors in one or both of their two "homes." Brothers & sisters would be divided. And many a child would lack actual care, suffer indifference or antagonism...
With this matter-of-fact statement. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall this week delivered to the nation what may be his valedictory as Chief of Staff. In a "Biennial Report to the Secretary of War," he told how that security had been won. But mainly-and most earnestly-George Marshall warned the U.S. of the certain consequences of future unpreparedness and of how the U.S. might be destroyed in another...
Congratulations on your matter-of-fact treatment of the scientific side of the atomic bomb [TIME, Aug. 20]. After having struggled with the Sunday supplement-like nonsense which the newspapers have been printing recently on the subject, it was welcome relief...