Word: sticklers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irvine's relief column!" Solemn-faced Producer DeMille, who works himself into the proper mood by donning such lavish haberdashery as forest-green gabardine riding costumes, bows to no stickler for technical accuracy. A thousand volumes were probed in research for North West Mounted Police. A "mounty" was imported to drill a squadron of extras. A forest of 400 pine trees, requiring a State fire warden, converted six acres of the Paramount lot into rugged backwoods. This earnest devotion to accuracy left little time for comedy, suspense and other standbys of good swashbuckling melodrama...
...deathbed he looked up to ask: "Is everything all right?" Advised that it was, he instructed: "Keep it so." His only son, Asahel II, kept it so until last week. For years he personally took over delinquent loans rather than let them spot the bank's records. A stickler for liquid assets, he astounded U. S. Treasury officials by turning in $350,000 in gold when the New Deal forsook the gold standard. Like the elder J. P. Morgan, he had plenty of money to lend to a man with character, none for a man without it, Stubborn, independent...
More solid was The Nation as a critic of letters. Literary Editor Wendell Phillips Garrison was a stickler for scholarship and accuracy. Henry James the Elder tore into Thomas Carlyle's life of Frederick the Great; Henry James Jr. at 22 took a lofty view of the works of Charles Dickens ("the greatest of superficial novelists"), sneered at Henry Kingsley ("the author leaps astride of a half-broken fancy . . . and trusts to Providence for the rest. . . ."), was appalled by Walt Whitman ("You talk entirely too much about your self."). Longfellow, Whittier, James Rus sell Lowell contributed to The Nation...