Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia is a nice state. It has mountains and plains and forests, and even a gold mine or two. It also has a lot of nice people. Some of them live in Macon County. That is a nice county. It has . . . a couple of towns called Montezuma and Oglethorpe, but it does not have Tuskegee Institute [April...
WHAT would you say is the devil's favorite text from the Bible? High among the devil's preferences in Holy Writ must be the verses that can be perversely warped out of their real meaning to make nice booby traps. Here is a beauty: "For you always have the poor with you." That has been continuously twisted by knaves to induce the belief that the evil of poverty is set in the world as permanently as gravitation. Another honey, lifted out of its context and distorted, is, "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword...
Tight Spot (Columbia) offers Ginger Rogers as a melancholy dame who must ask herself whether it is nobler in the mind to be a jailbird or a dead pigeon. Edward G. Robinson, the Government attorney, drags her out of a nice warm prison to offer a very cold proposition indeed: Will she turn state's evidence against a powerful underworldling in return for a reduction in sentence? While Ginger thinks it over, she trollops around her hotel suite, munching breast of guinea hen and the biceps of a policeman (Brian Keith) at Government expense. When Keith declines to give...
When the camera is not particularly concerned with demonstrating how nice Miss Dietrich looks in all types of lighting, it is busy recording a fairly exciting story, and, more important, showing a wide variety of interesting people. The hero is the type of terse, firm-chinned British officer that has been holding down forts against irresistible odds for generations...
When troops are not being machine-gunned, young ladies not being violated and Clive Brook not being fantastically cool as he thrashes some bounder, the rest of the passengers take up the slack with much interesting chatter. There is a nice old lady who may, or may not, be a madame, depending on the viewer's state of mind, a disgraced French officer, an American gambler, a missionary, and an unpleasant German opium dealer. All these help make Shanghai Express a picture that, although it begins slowly, chugs its way into a lot of excitement and interest...