Word: overcrowding
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...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...
...minor sports men and Junior Varsity athletes into the inter-House leagues is bound to squeeze a good many House men off the House teams. Since the Associate Plan has been accepted for next year, the associate members will be added to the House teams and may even overcrowd them. At present there is an excellent division between the good minor sports athletes and the not-so-good House men who play sports for the fun of good exercise. Moreover the plan would make the House teams unbalanced, for there are usually more minor sports athletes in one House than...
...themselves as a force to maintain the status quo, claiming that any benefits gained by such measures are more than offset by losses. It is high time that they are forcefully disillusioned. The Council has helped do this by spiking the argument against the Associate Plan that it would overcrowd facilities. More generally, the House Masters must realize that their most potent contention against both the Junior-Senior Admission and the Associate Plans, that these will destroy House spirit, is woefully invalid. House spirit is ephemeral and amorphous to the point of not deserving consideration when greater human values...
Immigration is the biggest row the Secretary of Labor has to hoe. Three years ago strict quota laws went into effect to try and keep U. S. work for U. S. workmen and not overcrowd the "land of opportunity...