Word: overcrowding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses. And in the second place, the House Masters, conservative as always, have decided that now is the appropriate moment to retrench their room quotas to last year's level. So they have sliced 200 of the 240 February vacancies off the list, claiming that filling them again would "overcrowd" their House residents. The real value behind such a decision may be debatable-but then probably few House Masters have noticed the crowding that has been going on in Cleverly, Dudley, and other such outlying districts. Using this line of reasoning, there remain but 40 House room places...
Squeeze Play. In Washington, the Ralph Burlesons and their seven children, barred from a six-room house because they would "overcrowd" it, snuggled together in a one-room flat...
...Doughgirls (Warners) tardily, joins the overcrowd of comedies about overcrowded Washington, with more than the usual number of fake marriages, misunderstandings, eccentric bit-players, and mirror mazes of French-farcically-slamming doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel...
Most chillers overcrowd the screen with werewolves or explain away all supernatural antics as the deliberate hocus-pocus of a mad scientist, estate-grabber or Axis agent. The Uninvited blends the everyday with the inexplicable, gets a lot of its best scares out of the everyday. The skittering of a squirrel across the drumhead floors of the vacant house suddenly gives vacancy a cold portentousness. The scraping of a wine glass against a table, during the seance, is more scary than the seance itself. The unexpected smashing of a window while you are watching a rather good Paramount ghost rasps...