Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...
...takes a long, unfavorable look at the numbers racket. Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very bad end, and his chief client and business...
After nibbling at High Towers, a reader might well conclude that Author Costain, who is an old hand at whipping up best-selling bonbons about the past (The Black Rose; The Moneyman), no longer has his heart in his work. In this surprisingly sedate historical romance, little blood is spilled, the solitary battle is brief and tame, and not a single damsel is seduced...
...past two years Miss Nicholas served as head of the production crew, designing the sets for last spring's Idler presentation. "A Phoenix Too Frequent," and this year's "Way of the World...
...Council must get rid of the idea that it can suppress information whenever it feels like it. The Council has used the same technique in the past, with equal lack of justification if not with equally flagrant results. Only very rarely does the Council deal with a subject about which information "will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole.' And only then is it justifiable for the Council to close its meetings...