Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more like Charlie Chaplin's. This is especially true of a certain browbeaten look he sometimes puts on, as though he were just a poor old gaffer at the mercy of all comers. This martyred look will break up into a smile if it is challenged, but sooner or later it will be resumed with a distant glance at nothing and a sighed "Well, well, you never can tell." The look has definite functions. In his New York apartment, it is a signal that the judge is bored with the conversation. At his country place in Westhampton, it means...
...PUBLIC is fickle, and sooner or later it may turn on Judge Medina as it has usually turned on its favorites. Cynicism will point out that he would be most happy in a world made up of Princeton men, preferably of the Class of '09, that he is too quick to ascribe other people's failure to personal weakness rather than circumstance, that he is at times obstinately legalistic and literal-minded, that he would decline an invitation to the Judgment Day if the date conflicted with that of his class reunion in June. But cynicism could seriously...
...recruiting blurb for the Army, the picture is top-notch. The "I" of the title turns out to be Uncle Sam, of all people. All the able-bodied men of draft age and a little bit over who appear in the film sooner or later wind up in the services, feeling extremely noble about it all. Really fills you with spirit...
Mobilization Boss Wilson held out little hope for relief. Sooner or later, conversion to war was bound to cause temporary unemployment. What irked such Democratic politicos as Governor Williams was that it would hit hardest in an election year. Wilson promised to appoint a task force to study Detroit's problem, and see if he couldn't give the auto industry more metal in the second quarter. But when it came right down to it, said DPA's Fleischmann, "the choice is between autos and ammunition...
...forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover, who in turn delivers...