Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...
Well remembered by Washington newsmen is 56-year-old Brigadier General Alexander Day Surles, a leathery, convivial cavalryman whose lanky legs possess one of the notable bows of the armed forces. Popular brigade commander in Fort Knox's Armored Force, he made his name with newsmen as head of Army's press section from 1935 to 1939. Then a lieutenant colonel, with pacifist critics his chief problem, newsmen rated him the ablest question-answerer ever to hold down...
...Life With Caroline (United Producers; RKO Radio). Caroline (Anna Lee) does not possess the studied virtuosity of the S. J. Perelman heroine who left the room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
...they blithely suggested that The Mother Church move from Boston to Berlin); 2) U.S. Christian Scientists at their annual meeting last month came out for the democratic system, declared that the evil forces in charge of the dictatorships exist "only as a subjective state of erroneous thought, and therefore possess neither power, permanence, nor reality"; 3) Nazis have always denounced Mary Baker Eddy's philosophy as an un-German "liberalistic ideology with a strong pacifist concomitant...
...been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...