Word: scrapingly
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...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...
...Whatta dey wanna go messin' around faw? Whatta dey wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
...payment, Russia will fork out cash and some finished products, and make up the balance by shipping vast stores of raw materials that the U.S. badly needs. Thus the U.S., which will scrape the bottom of its manganese and tungsten deposits in three years, will be able to stockpile these from Russia, along with high-grade molybdenum, chrome, mercury, zinc...