Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican bosses, out of power so long that they could not find a dyed-in-the-wool GOPster, were confronted with a choice between two Democrats. They picked one Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, onetime secretary to Al Smith. In so doing, they lost the services of the top Republican in city politics, Council President Newbold Morris, a patrician socialite who believes in government as a career. Cracked Newbold Morris: "[Judge Goldstein] thinks he can buy the good government label like a new collar. You've got to earn it through the years. It comes after trial by fire...
...White House appointment list were five notable callers-three marines, an Army private, and volcanic General George Smith Patton...
Nobody knows just what it is about Deaf Smith County, Tex. But for some reason, Deaf Smith citizens are almost immune to tooth decay (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). Last fortnight Dr. George W. Heard, the local dentist who drew national attention to Deaf Smith's perfect teeth, and Dr. F. Melton Butler of Seattle announced that they had a charter for a foundation to discover, produce and market the essence of Deaf Smith-whatever...
Conflict (Warner), in this film, develops chiefly between the edgy performance of many scenes and the plot-which, though basically all right, is much too fancily and obviously worked out. Humphrey Bogart, a grimly unhappy husband, murders Rose Hobart, his wife, for love of Alexis Smith, her younger sister, only to find that Miss Smith has no use for him. In the course of describing just how his wife looked when he last saw her, he makes a single mistake that punctures his otherwise airtight alibi. Since mystery-hardened cinemaddicts can hardly fail to miss his slip, it becomes much...
Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...