Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late summer afternoon, when the quiet streets of the new German capital were even sleepier than usual, our conversation turned to what I would be doing when I returned to America...
...were holding down a quiet corner table at the Boston Tobacco Club's annual sports night. Cigarette, cigar, and candy distributors from Eastern Massachusetts had gathered to present their annual "unsung hero" award to the Crimson's Frank White. White, you will no doubt recall, is the young man who hipped a left-handed pass to Bob Cochran to win the most recent Yale game...
Wealthy old General Vien, who runs Le Grand Monde (as well as various hotels, lumber mills and fisheries) docilely offered several thousand of his uniformed bully boys as recruits for the Vietnamese National Army; General Vien himself retired to the quiet family life he leads with his two wives, twelve children, screeching monkeys, a leopard, a tiger and some pet crocodiles. Wife No. 1 got in step with the new morality by starting a campaign against striptease, immoral books and dirty movies...
Miss Shentall, being only five years off the mark herself, has turned the actress' bugaboo of Juliet's age (not quite 14) splendidly to her advantage. With quiet restraint she portrays the childish but profound love of a young girl with a bridge of freckles across her nose, who has come to womanhood just a little sooner than she ought. Since this is her first major theatrical role, much credit is no doubt due Mr. Castellani's direction, for it is her part which holds the picture together...
...Black Rock (MGM) starts Metro off on the New Year with its best footage forward. It is a tight film, told in quiet words and simple pictures that give it an uncommon quality of economy...