Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever doubted where Uncle Tom stood on conservation, good will toward Latin America, snakes (he was a live-&-let-live man), or steel traps (he thought them inhumane). His most famous campaign was a five-year struggle which saved Cumberland Falls from a utilities syndicate headed by Sam Insull...
...Charles Bickford) industrial school and enters professional baseball, he shambles along such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even their efforts, plus Bendix's straightforward performance, do not save...
Plump, powdered and behatted, she briskly interrupted Chairman Sam Rayburn's introduction of Barkley, took over the microphone. On behalf of the Allied Florists of Philadelphia, she announced, she wanted to present President Truman with a large Liberty Bell made of flowers. Then, from beneath the bell came a shower of white pigeons (placed there by the florists' pressagent, who had billed them as "doves of peace...
With a flutter of wings, the pigeons swept up & out. The dignitaries on the platform cringed and shrank away like troops before a strafing attack. Torpid delegates broke into a roar of delight. One bird landed on the rostrum, where Chairman Sam Rayburn scooped it up and flung it roofward again. Two landed on a platform fan, stayed there with the breeze ruffling their tail feathers...
...Producer Sam Goldwyn, who buys only the best labels, summoned Stravinsky, and asked him to write the music for a picture on Russia. The conversation went something like this...