Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyers pointed to decisions on the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (the Mann Act), which says, "Any person who shall knowingly . . . cause to be transported . . . in interstate commerce . . . any woman or girl for . . . any immoral purpose . . . shall be deemed guilty of a folony...
...reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...
While refusing as yet to identify his new witness, Wallach emphasized his admiration for the person's "intellectual courage," in considering a challenge of Father Feeney, whom Wallach called, in a prepared statement, "a man of great, if misdirected, ability, whom many once rightly considered worthy of attention and respect...
...wishes to avoid trouble, he will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible use by a government official who views all political activity as red and white...
Lena Horne is probably the only person capable of singing "Stormy Weather" in a movie scene, while a large, crystalline tear courses down her right cheek--and get away with it. She manages to make the schmalz inherent in the scene seem plausible. That the script calls upon her to perform such a feat, and that she does it, present a good summary of quality of both script and performers...