Word: razors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tokyo suburb of Tamagawa, the afternoon of Sept.11, 1945 was sultry. A sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo, wartime premier of Japan. Tipped off that General MacArthur had ordered the hard-bitten little war lord's arrest, the newsmen had scrambled out ahead of the Army detail that would take him in. They grew impatient, sent a Japanese in to offer him a lift into town if he'd surrender to them instead. He refused to emerge from his study...
Last year, directing The Razor's Edge, he objected to the music written for a Montmartre café scene. He whistled a new tune, which was picked up by a studio accordion player and transcribed for orchestra. The studio got 5,000 letters asking about the song. After that Tin Pan Alleyman Mack Gordon wrote a slushy verse to go with Goulding's mushy tune...
...when the Pope enters the bathroom and turns on his own bath. The water can be electrically heated, but the Pope prefers it cold, even in winter. (He is a believer in the Kneipp system of fighting colds with cold.) After his bath, he shaves with an electric razor and dresses rapidly. Usually his vestments are changed from the day before. His indoor shoes are made of cloth (red, except on Good Friday, when he wears white) and are left every night to be cleaned along with the vestments...
...industry. William Wyler was Oscared for directing Best Years. Fredric March was named the year's best actor for his role in it. Handless Veteran Harold Russell was chosen the best supporting actor, and got another Oscar just on general principles. (Best supporting actress: Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge...
...reputation as a producer of quality entertainment, it will be because Mr. Selznick's profit motive is showing. All costly films, to be sure, are manufactured for profit, but the successful works generally keep pointing winningly to their warm hearts and remain sentimental about their subjects (The Razor's Edge) or their characters (The Yearling) or their audiences (It's a Wonderful Life). With no pretense at all to having a heart, big, beautiful, humorless Duel remains shrewdly cynical about both itself and its sensation-hungry public...