Word: pullings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers can find no satisfactory solution. This picture is a tedious little anecdote showing how the matrimonial differences of Dr. Donald Middleton (Joel McCrea) and his wife (Rosemary Ames) are eventually adjusted through the good offices of their mall daughter. As Molly Middleton, Shirley Temple tries hard to pull a vehicle which would be far too heavy for any adult cinemactress, manages to be surprisingly effective even in the sequence which shows Molly explaining to her Scottish terrier how she intends to run away because no one loves her any more. Most inevitable shot: Molly Middleton, informed by her mother...
Slash pine for paper, Tung oil for varnishes, soy beans for oils and plastics were all mentioned; but the big new proposed market-which might pull us out of the Depression, as did the automobile in 1920-21-is power alcohol...
...injustice. Its committees range from A to Z, busy themselves with such subjects as "Cooperation with Latin-American Universities," "Pensions and Insurance," "University Ethics," "Depression and Recovery in Higher Education." But its Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure, significantly designated Committee A, almost alone makes News. Committee A does not pull its punches. Its reports are models of courageous investigation and forthright speaking. If the entire profession should ever nerve itself to act as vigorously as this militant minority speaks, it would dispel forever the lay conviction that professors as a class are learned mice...
Other lines by the hundreds were reduced slightly but most of the price wars that flared from Los Angeles to Boston last week were over "loss leaders"-popular items sold at a loss to pull in customers, a practice outlawed by the codes. Loss leader price wars are merely cheap advertising for big chain and department stores but they are often disastrous for small independent grocers, druggists or tobacconists, who count on fast-selling brands for a large part of their profits. And the little fellows, who objected so strenuously to NRA wages & hours, were last week howling...
...most devastating thing to be said about the Warren and Dubin music is that there are times when it sounds as if it had been written by somebody else. Good scenes: Miss Del Rio saving O'Brien from drowning in the pool into which he dived to pull her out; the "Lady in Red" number; the anatomical direction of a lady's glance when she meets Horton, clad in an open bathrobe, on a stairway...