Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who are thoroughly sick of Lassic and all the sentimental pictures about thoroughbreds will naturally be wary of this one about a Southern home steader's boy and his pet fawn. But with the exception of a few views of the clouds to the accompaniment of singing voices. "The Yearling" suffers from none of the normal vices. The inscious, wooded setting is portrayed with the right amount of whimsy to suit the romantic tale, and the characters are people you can become interested is. For example, when the boy finally has to kill his pet, who has began...
...Britain's plight on the war. They had bungled. They had never made up their minds whether they should give priority to housing or to food production. They had disastrously overestimated Britain's ability to export, underestimated her need for dollars. They had concentrated on their pet nationalization schemes instead of all-out production. They had fulfilled the long-standing Socialist promises of higher pay and shorter hours at a time when production costs needed to be lowered and workers needed to work harder...
...history"), anguished ministers kept constant tabs on Eva by transatlantic telephone. "If only," thought some, their fingers crossed, "she'll keep off politics!" At the last minute, four weeks ago, when Eva was about to take off from Morón airport, President Perón had rushed his pet ghostwriter aboard her plane, just in case. But one never could tell about Eva. To the women of Spain, on the first leg of her journey, she said disarmingly: "I did not come for an Axis, but only as a rainbow between our two countries...
...Mason," announced the British Information Services, "may soon become famous as a fashion artist. . . ." Basis for this conjecture: Cinema-Hard-Guy Mason had designed some ladies' scarves which were now turning up for sale in stores. Pictured by Actor Mason on the scarves: Noel Coward, the Masons' pet cats, James Mason & wife...
...protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder, set in a still fancier frame, before matters are cleared...