Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take One False Step (Universal-International) features William Powell climbing in & out of a highly unlikely scrape. As a distinguished educator in search of a university endowment, Powell appears hardly bright enough to run a class in finger-painting. Though happily married, he accepts a date with a blonde barfly
Advance word on the combination crew is slim since it is untested in combat, but the general superiority of local oarsmen make it likely that Bolles can scrape together eight spare men with less trouble than Yale's Alan Walz...
...because it was dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...mild amusement or dislike roundly. This is because it is culled from an excellent book and some people, finding the picture not up to the stratospheric standard of the book, thereupon turn violently against it. I, being merely a partisan and not a worshipper of Sam Clemens, could still scrape up a few chuckles...
...discover Gloria, a seductive salesgirl with a gold-plated larynx. Under their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch with Douglas. It is never made entirely clear what all the shooting is about...