Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solution. In Oklahoma City, authorities puzzled over the problem of Mrs. Bill Tucker, who shot her husband in the abdomen when she caught him flirting with the telephone girl in a bootleg liquor store, finally solved it by releasing the three principals, jailing the bootlegger...
...been given was clear-to obliterate Japan's capacity to make war, and to start the country on the road to becoming a peaceful and democratic nation. The first months after the landings were a wonderful achievement. The Japanese army, navy and air force were liquidated without a shot fired...
...orchestra gave its first public performance and became the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. Last year when the orchestra played for the radio, one listener-Arturo Toscanini-was delighted. He rushed to the phone and shouted to an NBC big shot: "This orchestra is wonderful ... who is this Rachmilovich? . . . Let's have him here...
...Connolly's highbrow British magazine Horizon. The published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known, sometimes like Major Hoople, sometimes like crumbs from Winston Churchill's table. But the mass of entertaining trivia is shot through with eloquence, wit, and an artist's imagery...
...really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect example of how to film a play. There is hardly a shot which does not set up visual tension against the lashing, steel-spring dialogue; there is not a single performance which is short of adequate; the work of Miss Eldridge, Mr. O'Brien and Betsey Blair, as a shaky-minded neighbor, is much more...