Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while the modified legislation may prove somewhat more pleasing, or at least somewhat less disagreeable to those who have opposed the Barnes measure, it could in the opinion of State House observers, put Governor Bradford very much on the spot...
...flaw in the troupe's production was neither its play, which was interesting if at times overdone, nor certainly the performances. The stage devices were a distinct weak spot-the vulgar and obvious music smacking of 19th Century melodrama, the sets shabby and clumsy, and the arrangement of the piece into a number of short scenes out-of-date and annoying. Victorian elements and language aside, however, the evening was distinctly an unusual and rewarding...
...when their newest boss called a staff meeting, newsmen merely yawned. But Editor Willam A. Townes, stoop-shouldered and deceptively mild looking, jerked them awake. He had heard ugly stories about newsroom graft. From now on, anybody who took money on the side would be fired on the spot. Within 48 hours, Townes wanted typed confessions of what had gone...
Commercials for television are causing deep furrows in admen's brows. The perfect solution, advertising experts have decided, would be an overpowering combination of eye-catcher (four roses in a hunk of ice) and ear-filler ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot...
...priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring (Michael Wilding), a gentle loafer who handles most of Wilde's sharpest lines, does all he can to get him off the spot. These characters, and others, are so brightly and efficiently presented that they become archetypes for their place and period...