Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time wrong is done and the precedent established, it may be done by a good man with the best of intentions; but the precedent is established, and in future years that precedent will be used by the demagogue and the rascal to perform his tricks and to fool the public. . . . [Permitting a President unlimited tenure] would mean-not perhaps in my lifetime, or it may be not in the lifetime of anyone here-but it would mean ultimately the establishment in this country of a monarchy upon the ruins of our present republican form of government...
...gallon to bring oil east via the Great Lakes than it does to haul it by rail from Texas. Another difficulty is that gasoline still is more profitable to sell than fuel oils. Higher fuel oil profits in the East, smaller gasoline profits in the entire country might perform strange wonders...
Eyes for the Blind. They were still only a handful-with a thousand missions to perform. They accomplished what they did by courage, by surprise, and through the coaching of the smart and experienced General Chennault. They had only a few more planes than the old Flying Tigers, who rarely had more than 50 ships fit to fly. They still could not challenge the Jap's mastery of the air. But at last China's armies had eyes to see with; they no longer moved like blind worms mercilessly pecked at by birds overhead...
...Nelson's "Purp'' is a very sick dog right now; and if it does not soon recover to perform the miracles its master hopes for, it is apt to be a dead dog this autumn...
...cast, in which Orson Welles does not appear, are all good actors with difficult roles to perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like...