Word: softheartedness
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James Cagney plays the role with sensitivity and understanding. As Chaney's two wives. Dorothy Malone and Jane Greer, though plotted in severe black and white, manage to make grey-toned human beings of themselves. Most important, Lon Chaney is presented in all his frail- ties. He was a...
On the News. Reporter Lahey soon became known to most of the cops and crooks, bigwigs and bartenders in the city. He earned a reputation as a 100-proof character, in the softhearted, hard-drinking Front Page tradition, who could also turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack...
Of all Wilde's works, the comedies stand up best (The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance). It is still impossible not to smile when Wilde seizes upon some normally dismal aspect of human relations and translates it faithfully and accurately into the language of comedy...
M. C. Mack has carried on the major's tradition of putting an end to applause by repeating "All right, all right, all right ..." But he was too softhearted to continue the major's gong-banging when a contestant lost the audience's favor. Mack conducts rambling...
A Man with Understanding. The size and character of the C.I.O., its wage rates and pensions, and the political influence of organized labor are all a testament to Phil Murray's dedicated life. But Phil Murray was more than a fighter for labor. He was a man with a...