Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Return of Gene Fowler, who incidentally has been a great power behind many recent motion picture successes, to what many critics call his forte could not have been marked by a more promising vehicle than "Salute to Yesterday." The success of the book because of sheer readability and almost universal appeal should be certain...
...refugees from China, especially those from shanghai, had many horrible tales to tell of the sights to be soon in places where there had been actual fighting. According to their reports and a perusal of American newspapers, the worst does not appear in our press; be cause the sheer ghastliness and brutality of what is happening there is too great to appear in the public print...
...three acts of solid suspense, piffling but none the loss deadly, John Murray and Allen Boretz's "Room Service" surpasses the most lugubrious of tragedies. In fact, although it is farcical throughout and even borders on the slap-stick, it threatens more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy...
...trip was to see his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in Seattle, pick up first-hand impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer force of habit, his visit to his grandchildren would inevitably have been the week's major U. S. political news...
Although supple and enterprising to the point of being Machiavellian. Dr. Schacht has the mind and technique of an orthodox banker. As Economics Minister he has browbeaten by sheer personality and held in check other bigwigs such as Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who as long ago as 1933 proclaimed: "He who organizes the profit mentality must go; he is a mortal enemy of the nation!" Nazi radicals like Dr. Ley have been trying to "get" Dr. Schacht all these years, but last week it was not they who got him. so far as correspondents could discover...