Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Host. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Hagopian sued her landlord for $22,000 because, she complained, he had 1) torn down the kitchen sink, 2) removed her stove, 3) turned off the gas, 4) padlocked her bathroom...
Miss Hellman's play is the kind a stage cast can 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...
...trick was a more intensive method of mining the ore. Last week Kelley was busy spending $20,000,000 to turn the trick. At the head of Butte's "Dublin Gulch," workers hoisted a sign that read "Kelley's Shaft." They started to sink a rectangular shaft big enough (38 ft. by 9 ft.) to accommodate the machinery needed for the Kelley plan. It will be driven down to 3,400 ft., cutting straight through the old galleries where the best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work...
...well over a decade, the Yard athletic program has limped along like a nervous ghost, always threatening to sink dejectedly into a nearby grave, and rarely showing signs of purpose or composure. Freshmen have groaned through their regular grind in the gym, and perhaps played a game or two of pickup softball, but there has been no integrated inter-dormitory sports organization. Now, however, negotiations between Yard officials and the Athletic Association seem to promise well-arranged Freshman intramurals in the future...
...kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with the soundtrack...