Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...
Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...
...through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back in '36, in his pre-fifth-symphony days, he was considered a decadent by the Commisary of Culture, and publicly reprimanded by Pravda for being a callous, shallow, "modern," who destroyed the old formal bases of art just for the fun of it. Soon afterwards, however, he had a startling change of heart, dropped his former pan-European artistic ideals, and became overnight the musical exponent of the new social gospel. The politicians were quick...
...were, the week's action proved that the Axis had embarked on more than a hit-&-run transatlantic raid, had won the first round of the battle of the Caribbean. Aruba was shelled twice (without material damage to the refinery). The raiders had accounted for seven of the shallow-draft tankers that carry oil from the Lake of Maracaibo to the islands. They had sunk four big ocean tankers, had put torpedoes into two freighters anchored off Trinidad. Total Axis casualties: three submarines, probably (but not positively) sunk by depth charges off Aruba...
...Many a short or shallow vein of ore lies unused for lack of capital. Ickes wants authority to certify borrowers to the RFC to exploit uneconomic reserves of metals WPB needs. If private enterprises are unwilling to accept such loans, the Secretary contemplates (without, he says, enthusiasm) direct exploitation by the Government...