Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he is hampered by more stolid and much more pretentious material, Director Tay Garnett is still clearly the man who gave the melodramas Bataan and The Cross of Lorraine their honest intensity, and Cameraman Joseph Ruttenberg and several players-notably the Misses Cooper, Tandy and Hunt and Messrs. Peck and Crisp-add valuable services of their own. The main reason the picture will do well, though, is that it gives Greer Garson a chance at something...
...husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says, "I'm stuck.") In The King of the Desert, two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a Hollywood bar until he knocks one of them out ("We'll fix you in Holly wood, Mister...
Spanish moss drooped from the big trees in the gloomy forest; where the country was open, sluggish streams meandered through marshes. Stolid, patient Lieut. General Walter Krueger was expecting an attack. He got it. His opponent's armor knifed into the center of Krueger's positions. It looked bad for Krueger's army. But when the armor tried to exploit its advantage, Krueger capitalized on the water-broken terrain, threw in his air force and destroyed the armor. With air power and airborne infantry, he cut the foe's communications. Then he turned his cavalry loose...
Inching Along. The stolid American Medical Association, although still unconvinced, has finally given up its golden dream of preserving the status quo. It has even managed to swallow two pills: 1) some forms of group practice (like the Mayo Clinic), 2) voluntary group medical insurance (such as many big corporations now sponsor for their employes). But the A.M.A. has always opposed a combination of the two, in which the insured group hires a group of doctors to take care of its members...
Outnumbered ten to one, the British had no choice but to post machine guns at the exits from the square and pray for a quiet night. A stolid British sentry locked Daser's door from the outside and sat down to wait. When a German pillbox on the town's outskirts began to fire aimless machine-gun bursts, the British sent in to ask if the general would not stop it, since surrender had been agreed upon. Answered testy General Daser...