Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season when the public snubbed the critics. Despite a strong press, Life with Mother and The Traitor flopped financially; despite a badly mixed press, Where's Charley? and Jean Giraudoux's enchanting Madwoman of Chaillot flourished. Musically, 1948-49 could point with pride to Kiss Me, Kate as well as South Pacific; but, to only one enjoyable revue, Lend an Ear. It was a season when the mourners' bench was lined with Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, John van Druten, Kaufman & Ferber, Garson Kanin, Marc Connelly...
...When the pride of Graecia's noblest race...
...little teaser ads that spoke cryptically of "transmogrification," the news was broken gently to San Franciscans. After 40 years of looking more like the inside of an old Moulmein pagoda than a retail store, S. & G. Gump Co., the pride of Post Street, was Westernizing itself. On its temple-quiet second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
With Stratton to keep the facts straight and tough-minded Director Sam Wood (Command Decision, Pride of the Yankees, etc.) behind the cameras, The Stratton Story avoids the obvious temptations to jerk extra tears and belabor its moral. Jimmy Stewart plays Monty and, under Stratton's coaching, does a good deal of plausible (but not very hefty) hurling without calling in a double. Except for a bit of sly mugging in the early scenes, Stewart turns in a solid, heart-warming performance with some attractive short-stopping by June Allyson as Mrs. Monty. He also gets solid support from...
...labor law is badly needed. It is needed so badly that President Truman cannot afford to match his stubbornness and pride with that of the opposition. If any one thing is obvious from the first quarter of the 81st Congress, it is that the Fair Deal is going to get no free ride. Truman can do much by astute juggling; the labor bill should be the first item on the program...