Word: sags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even that situation would be economic ambrosia compared to the potion we would have to swallow when the war is over and the government expenditures sag from something over fifty billions of dollars to a meagre ten billion. The big post-war problem will be filling in that forty billion dollar gap. Unless there is enough private investment and consumer spending to fill it in, we will experience a gum-shoe stagnation that will make 1929 look like prosperity without the corner. We won't be able to fill it in unless new outlets for investment are opened...
...Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm, but underneath there is a vein of anxiety and determination, a sag in optimism-but a feeling that the attack precipitated a fight that was inevitable and that out of it will come eventually victory, peace and a better world...
...mislaid his new fiancée. Of course the old man recovers, and the substitute fiancee has to continue her role until the young man falls in love with her and makes it permanent. The picture is a blend of amusing horseplay, bright dialogue and tears, with a noticeable sag...
...with the Bank of Japan as the nucleus. Private financing will be forbidden. A semi-compulsory national-savings plan will be inaugurated. Control of stock exchanges and money markets will be tightened. Available capital will be allocated "rationally" by the Government. At this news the Stockmarket went from a sag into a slump...
Perhaps with better direction the picture might move faster. But the airy touch which one usually associates with French direction is entirely absent, and the plot is allowed to sag of its own weight. The acting, though not exceptional does not detract too much from the quality of the film. Lillian Harvey, as the English girl with whom Schubert falls in love, manages to carry off a difficult role with considerable understanding. But she is not enough to save the picture from being a slow, slightly tuneful attempt to capitalize on the fact that Schubert was a great composer...