Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pierre of the Plains", the second feature, makes you laugh in spite of yourself. With a corny plot, punk acting, and little excuse for being, it ought to be terrible. But for some well-disguised reason it's not. Maybe its because John Carroll, the leading actor, has such a great time. If you can't laugh with him, you can laugh...
Walter Houston, Joan Leslie, and Francis Langford play supporting roles effectively, but it's Cagney's show from beginning to end. He dominates it as completely as Cohan would probably do if he were there. When the time for handing out prizes rolls around. Cagney's performances ought to give him a running head-start. And the movie won't b far behind...
Commentator Arthur Godfrey of a Washington radio station asked his listeners to dial him out. He urged them to tune in a rival station where Claude Mahoney had a story they ought to hear. The story...
...still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that our struggle is theirs? Such questions are pressed with increasing insistence in the U.S., not by our critics but by our friends. We ought to welcome with eagerness the opportunity of answering them now, and of answering them not by more oratory but by action...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, head of SOS, thinks business and the housekeeping part (supply, service, transport) of the Army are much the same. "After all," said a major last week, "there is no reason for misunderstanding on either side. This move certainly ought to make for a smoother pushing...