Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money continues cheap, and industry continues in poor shape, except in a few departments, such as chain stores and utilities. Railroads, although earnings are showing a tendency to decline temporarily, are daily more cheerful over their prospects. Yet through all this there is an unusual dearth of novel or sensational news...
...unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis...
...figure as a skeleton, stripped of most of the flesh and blood wherewith Sinclair Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought out a sleek, home-wrecking creature (Carmel Myers). Mary Alden, the Babbitt wife, has played frumpy parts...
...stay constantly above the billion-dollar mark," he stated, "for a bank's resources advance and decline just as figures of car loadings or of steel tonnage rise and fall from month to month ... it tends to show that today this country's banks are in better shape than ever before to carry on the financial work that they, as banks, are expected...
...message of thanks to his campaign committee he said: "Be of good cheer. From the wider viewpoints which shape the national policy, our failure may yet prove a blessing in disguise. My faith in the future remains as strong as ever, although the immediate outlook before the county is gloomy enough. In that faith we hold on unflinchingly...