Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a top Broadway and Hollywood comic, was riding his greatest triumph: he was the U.S. traveling salesman who had won the heart of Britannia. It was not just an entertainer's hit; visiting Americans thought that he had been funnier before. By simply being his uninhibited self, he somehow embodied for Britons all that was likable about the U.S., and all that was reassuring to grey socialist Britain...
Panic & Proxies. Born to the black-bread fare of Italian immigrants, young Giannini thrived on the urgent challenges of disaster, the quick opportunities of every self-made man. Taken into his stepfather's San Francisco produce business at twelve, A.P. became a partner at 19, half-owner a few years later. He retired from the business at 31 with a $250 monthly income...
Juiciest plum is Tracy's role as Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...
...bullies his gentle wife (Deborah Kerr), who ends up as a maudlin drunkard. He deserts his mistress (Leueen MacGrath), and drives his old friend and partner (Mervyn Johns) to suicide. As the movie ends, both Edward and his wife are dead, but Boult, still obsessed with the pursuit of self-perpetuation, is ready to begin a search for Edward's illegitimate child...
...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...