Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memorable, in the Hitchcock sense, but neat, alert and thoroughly enjoyable. Its story: the husband (Dan Duryea) of a murdered blackmailer (Constance Dowling) and the wife (June Vincent) of the man condemned as the killer, try to find out who really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples: Duryea 's mannerisms as a dipsomaniac jazz pianist; Michael Brandon showing how a grade-A Hollywood columnist acts...
Sympathy & Soup-Mix. She had no office, but put her desk by the main door -to keep a friendly eye on everybody who came & went. An evangelist for education, Emily would find a dejected-looking man on the street and talk him into following her back to school. For hungry students there were huge pots of soup-mix, cooked up by Emily at home, at her own expense, and brought down to school...
...born, Princeton (A.B.), Oxford (B.A.), and an associate editorship of the New Republic. Father of four (boys), he is a soft touch for his family, but a "hard" man with his staff-especially with novice writers and researchers who haven't learned that erudition and journalism can mix...
...gives a memorable, hackle-raising performance as the son who eventually loses a leg in a war his diplomat father did nothing to avert. But most of the Wind's virtues and practically all of its faults must be credited to Playwright Hellman, who generally manages to mix propaganda and playwriting pretty deftly. This time her plugging runs away with her plotting: the outsized portion of sermon occasionally preaches more convincingly than it plays...
...restriction to an all-male chorus will mean once more that most of the great works of devotive music must be omitted, is it a sufficient reason that Harvard's official listing as a men's institution makes it a dishonesty to mix the sexes under the University name? In spite of their refusal to use openly the horriffic word, other University officials have welcomed, or at least accepted, a form of co-education. While others brace themselves to the brave new world where women exist, the church seeks refuge in a murky past...