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Together Again (Columbia) is a title which presumably refers to the fact that Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer once made a successful romance called Love Affair (1939), and are now at it once more. It can hardly refer to the present picture. Its story is a skittish, moderately ribald frappé about a small-town mayoress (Miss Dunne), her father-in-law (Charles Coburn), and a sculptor (Mr. Boyer) who remodels her career...
...questions, the businessmen were skittish, mainly because they were not sure what they wanted. Example: when Robert Gaylord, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was asked about tariffs, he replied: "We favor low tariffs, but we want to protect American industry and living standards...
...Secret sentences of its kangaroo courts lay behind 354 political murders committed between the 1918 armistice and June 24, 1922, the day Germany's Jewish Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau died at the hands of the Feme. For all its crimes, two Feme murderers received light sentences in the skittish Weimar courts; the rest were left alone...
Only 25 Knew. Before the liberation of Paris only 25 people knew the identity of the man chiefly responsible for Les Editions de Minuit. He was shy, thirtyish Jean Bruller, a onetime illustrator whose skittish prewar works included a book of cartoons entitled Twenty-One Delightful Ways of Committing Suicide...
...wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time. . . . The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states. And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare to mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please...