Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confronted with "the admittedly grim prospects of the present," President Conant recognizes that men with "solid faith... founded on religious beliefs" are best able to maintain composure and integrity...
...paradoxically ascetic ideals, has been vulgarized nobly by Maurice Evans. Instead he shows a comically flat and self-conscious hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players fit themselves into their entertaining roles with the necessary attention to proportion and restraint...
Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...
...successful soap-opera actor -but that is a far cry from being a movie matinee idol. Gone is the famous 23-foot Marmon with his name in solid gold on the door. He can no longer afford to pass out $100 tips to waiters. His hair is white, and the lean, taut jaw line once beloved by millions of women has run to jowls. "At 64," booms Francis Xavier Bushman, "my energies are somewhat-ah-shall we say, mellowed, but my profile is unimpaired...
...first time since formal athletics were resumed on a large scale a year ago, that goal is definitely in sight. Coaches who last year were starting from scratch in building new teams out of new talent will have a chance to go much further this year with a solid foundation...