Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will certainly not interest those who regard the United States as a some what impoverished gold mine out of which they can still scrape a nugget or two for themselves, It will interest only those who think of the United States as their land - a land they know and love - a land that became rich through the industry, thrift, and enterprise of its people, and will never regain its prosperity in any other...
...long Russo-German line hardly budged. The Germans boasted that they had "stabilized" the line between the Carpathians and the Gulf of Finland, and they were in fact holding firm in front of Warsaw and East Prussia. They were clearly throwing into this theater any reinforcements they could scrape up from anywhere. Nothing more had been heard of the gap which, three weeks ago, the Germans claimed they had blasted through the Russian corridor on the Gulf of Riga (TIME, Aug. 28). If the Germans were retiring troops from Estonia and Latvia through this gap, they did not want...
...this sort of story were performed for its own sake, it would play only to ushers and to those who scrape chicle from the undersides of theater seats. Played to music and other anesthetics, the plot is often hardly noticeable. Both Deyo sisters are nice to look at, and Gracie Allen obliges uproariously with her One Finger Piano Concerto...
...hate sin and love the brethren. And even in his corrections, let him act with prudence, and not go too far, lest while he seeketh too eagerly to scrape off the rust, the vessel be broken. Let him keep his own frailty ever before his eyes. . . . And by this we do not mean that he should suffer vices to grow up; but that prudently and with charity he should cut them off, in the way he shall see best for each, as we have already said; and let him study rather to be loved than feared...
...feature which has come to be expected of a Bette Davis picture is adult, uncondescending dialogue. "Old Acquaintance" has more of it than Hollywood can usually scrape together, though 'ess than "Now, Voyager," for example. Most of this dialogue concerns the two loves of Bette, who here plays Katherine Marlowe, a modern and conscientious novelist. The first is the husband of her best friend (Miriam Hopkins) who "turns out her novels on a sausage grinder." The second is a dapper young man (Gig Young) whom she loses to Miriam's daughter. This latter part of the plot is weakened...