Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian thrillers that Hollywood has tried its hand at--and there have been a lot of them--"Gaslight" is the first this reviewer can remember that doesn't falter, drag, or lose interest because of plot involvement or sheer length. Although it runs for 104 minutes, it is difficult to see where any of MGM's great amount of footage could...
...Nary a line ... to express the sheer relief with which most of us viewed the elimination of this political charlatan, this masquerader. He may now take his rightful place among the three other horsemen of apostasy in New Deal administration...
...America than there had ever been before. ... In the average they were the liveliest, the most vigorous, the most entertaining writers the United States has ever had. No one who lived and read his way through the Twenties will forget the verve, the excitement of that literature, the sheer animal spirits with which it treated even its most lugubrious themes...
Most articulate were the Negroes. Volleyed California's State Tax Administrator B. B. Bratton: "Louis B. Mayer is losing [that] adroit sense of . . . the fitness of things which marks the master showman. . . ." Thundered George A. Beavers, of the Golden State Life Insurance Co.: "It is sheer folly for Jews to entertain . . . the notion that they will escape the wrath which racial and religious bigotry let loose when tensions are increased by propaganda novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin." Boomed the Negro press: Uncle Tom was a socially significant work in its day, now it is just a reminder...
Married couples to run these remote stations is an idea the Civil Aeronautics Administration hit upon two years ago. The majority of single men on such assignments quit out of sheer loneliness...