Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth of sentiment, there is little sentimental about Koerner, and the America he pictures in kaleidoscopic fashion is more disturbing, all in all, than delightful. Future generations may well debate how much of this disturbing quality was in the man and how much in the nation...
...ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied Gary's nose and otherwise clouted him for crabbing the routine. After the bout, Gary rested briefly, then plodded to a nearby bar, expressing a simple sentiment about his hard-knuckled brothers: "I made them, and I can break them." At week's end, Montreal Wrestling Promoter Eddie Quinn, a part owner of El Morocco, reasoned that the Crosby combo had been booked all wrong to begin with. He offered them a good deal...
...time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
Hunting for some other way out, the surplus-surfeited corn belt shifted its sentiment toward tighter controls. The Illinois Farm Bureau, biggest in the nation, voted for an unprecedented plan of compulsory acreage retirement, a sort of unsubsidized soil bank, plus a subsidy-in-kind scheme that would hand out Government-owned surplus grain to farmers who grow even less than their allowances. Iowa farmers leaned in the same general direction, set the stage for a rough-and-tumble battle at the American Farm Bureau convention in Chicago next week. Though none of the farm organizations brought forth really promising...
...maid who is really a princess, a treasure buried on the land of a rich and comic pig farmer -is a typical operetta mixture of farce and romance. Unfortunately, Director Ritchard and his cast could not quite make up their minds whether they were working for laughs or for sentiment. And for reasons best known to himself, Translator Valency had his Hungarians rising in a patriotic revolt against Austrian oppression (the 74-year-old original involved merely a musical-comedy war against Spain...