Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the war, and with the overthrow of the Nazi government: We must crush Germany so that she will never be able to rise again 19%, We must accept Germany back into the family of nations 64%. Undecided...
Then with stone walls crumbling, bar racks and asylums emptying fast, penitentiaries ablaze, and the Capitol presumably under control, Poet Cowley heard "an unchoked sigh, a moan of liberation" rise from mean streets, moonless areaways, factory gates, convict camps and the Cotton Belt...
Largely because Edward Arnold makes a convincing underworld mogul and Edward G. Robinson a passable newspaper editor, "Unholy Partners" is a fairly entertaining cross between the rise of a modern tabloid and the familiar gangster story. If they had cut the pretty blurbs about the ethics of American journalism, this film would have been a well paced cops-and-robbers epic. As it stands, the action sags hopelessly about every fifteen minutes and Hollywood getting out a newspaper remains strictly authentic Hollywood, strictly unauthentic journalism. Laraine Day's presence is welcome, not so much because she loves Robinson bravely...
...feel that the prospective deficit and the present squabbling might have been avoided by a rise in the weekly board rate. The Dining Halls administration and the University authorities will say that such a policy would necessitate a greater increase than some students are able to afford. Yet they never bothered to show us in actual dollars and cents what such a plan would cost. We do not ask any unreasonable arrangement. If an increase in board rate alone would not cover the deficit, the student body would be willing to cut down on some of its table luxuries...
...plan: the new story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through for the same reason: Miss Stevens, though she has fewer teeth than Jeannette, is no better than her predecessor...