Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consul's halfbrother, Hugh, a leftwing, guitar-playing rover who has been in love with Yvonne for years. By nightfall of the same day, Hugh and Yvorme have been drawn together-and the helpless consul is lying dead in a ravine, shot by a gang of Mexican semi-fascist desperadoes who mistake him for his leftist halfbrother...
Song of Scheherazade (Universal-International) is another of those amiable semi-burlesques in Technicolor which generally feature either beauteous Maria Montez jouncing down a stairway or beauteous Yvonne de Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
Overlooking this fact, and in the face of strong verbal resistance to their proposal, Britain has back-tracked and now presents a new plan which might have been adequate two years ago, but which today merely exudes a weary self-interest. It calls for the creation of two semi-autonomous States. Arab and Jewish, subject to over-all British authority. No specific boundaries would be set--the areas of the States would be decided upon by the majority of the population in the particular section. Jewish immigration would be upped from its present 1,500 per month figure...
Since the progressive and anti militarist forces within this country would, in his view, be great enough to prevent a turn to a fascist dictator, the dominant capitalists would attempt to enforce a semi-war program in an effort to preserve their privileges, while assuring a moderate prosperity to the workers. This program would, when combined with a new type of imperialism allied to general reaction, lead to increased dangers of another war. To combat this danger Sternberg falls back on the progressives, urging them to expose this danger and to prepare an adequate foreign as well as domestic program...
...nine years of its existence, lona has attracted some 180 "minister associates" in the Church of Scotland; some 380 "women associates" who meet at intervals and observe a modified Rule of living, and approximately 7,000 worldwide "friends," who contribute a yearly $1 and receive the Community's semi-annual publication, the Coracle...