Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Orson Welles, 28, showman; and Rita Hayworth, 24, cinemalulu; each for the second time; three months after Rita announced that she would marry Coast Guardsman Victor Mature after the war; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sleight-of-handed Welles, who at the ceremony could not get the ring out of its box, had featured his bride in his Hollywood magic show (TIME, Aug. 16). Said Mature: "Apparently the way to a girl's heart is to saw her in half...
...enormous help in the devil's sleight of hand is the present vogue of The Historical Point of View. "The Enemy loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we can keep men asking 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions...
...picture is, in fact, Hollywood's most strenuous effort, to date, to mix a box-office Mickey Finn out of these disparate ingredients: topical tragedy, pulmotored patriotism, slick-paper romance, and anything-for-a-laugh comedy. There are moments when Director McCarey has the sleight of hand it takes. Albert Bassermann makes a small prize package of a fierce, old Polish general. Pudgy Walter Slezak, as the dastardly baron, is as slickly untrustworthy as a bomb in aspic. But Principals Rogers and Grant exude a general impression that they know something has gone very wrong, and that nothing much...
Governor Edison replied: "For a long time past the city of Jersey City has given the appearance of solvency only through resort to bookkeeping sleight of hand and other methods that in commercial life are termed 'high finance...
John Steinbeck wrote the novel in 1935, and found his first public. Dramatist Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road) made it into a dirty, dismal, unsuccessful play in 1938, and socked a drama critic* for saying so. It went to Paramount Pictures for peanuts ($4,000) and, after some customary Hollywood sleight-of-hand, wound up at M.G.M...