Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materialist Vishinsky heard Msgr. Joseph F. Flanelly denounce "impious and rank materialists." After Mass Vishinsky bowed, smiled and warmly clasped the hand of the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre. The new Russian line might turn out to be long or short, straight or crooked, but it was surely being drawn in crayon with a heavy hand...
...gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks handed them by white-coated houseboys, listening to the beat...
...half years ago, on Crozier's death, a firmer hand took the helm. Short, bristle-haired Alfred P. Wadsworth, 55, had joined the staff in 1917, covered the Irish "trouble" when Scott was exposing and flaying the misdeeds of the British...
Hollywood has always had title trouble.*However famous the book, play or short story, moviemakers feel that about 70% of all titles must be "simplified," cleaned up or sexed up to attract 56 million customers. Title news on forthcoming films: ¶James Feniipore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Columbia announced, will reach the screen as Last of the Redmen. ¶After months of impatient waiting for the movie version of James Thurber's introspective little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will...
Late in the 20's the need for change became apparent. While great numbers of the Society's directors predicted a Gomorrah-like conflagration, the new secretary, Louis Croteau, embarked on a policy that conceded to Evil on short-run objectives, but went down the line when it came to the greater dangers. These were, and are, according to Croteau, commercialized gambling, professional and simon-pure prostitution, the narcotics trade, and obscenity...