Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, like many other tenants, Salvatore had tried desperately to save his modest enterprise. He appealed to Mayor William O'Dwyer. The mayor referred him to Commissioner Robert Moses. "I wrote Moses, but no answer," said Salvatore sadly. Now he is resigned, but hopeful. As the spinning steel ball brought down the buildings around him last week, Salvatore said: "We're good, quiet people, all working people. Mostly Italians, but there's a Jewish fella and an Irish fella. We always get along. No fights. Never need the police. So maybe they let us stay...
...Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)- the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum...
...play, The Time of Your Life made its author a modest fortune. Whether it will do as much for the Cagney brothers, who turned it into a movie, remains to be seen. It is a skillfully calculated improvisation for live actors on a rigid stage, and has an almost cabaret dependence on flesh-&-blood intimacy with the audience. Wisely, in this case, the screen imitates the stage rather closely. The whole rhythm of entrance & exit, bit and buildup is strictly theatrical, and the camera scarcely ever leaves the redolent barroom...
Four Faces West. Harry Sherman's modest, attractive picture of the Southwest, with Joel McCrea, Charles Bickford, Frances Dee (TIME...
Four Faces West. Harry Sherman's modest, attractive picture of the Southwest, with Joel McCrea, Charles Bickford, Frances Dee (TIME...