Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sternly rebuked was Ambassador John Cudahy, for suggesting that Great Britain relax her blockade, let the U. S. feed Hitler's Europe (see col. 3). Less pointed, but clear, was the rebuke administered to Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt, who returned last month with words of comfort for the tottery Pétain regime (see p. 27). Mr. Roosevelt's trusted Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau last week indicated that Hitler's France can expect no comfort from the U. S. More for emphasis than as a practical consideration, Mr. Morgenthau went...
...Dickensian characters in London are just a few shades more painful than the worst of Dickens; the court and military sequences in Paris suggest an expensive and uninspired Hollywood production cf War and Peace. When all is said & done the author overestimates the dignity of his romance by giving it an unsatisfactory ending...
...suggest that if you are trying to use the old-fashioned form of address found in the King James Bible and surviving to some extent in poetry and prayer, the proper form is "How Art Thou?" But if it is the Quaker usage you are striving after, the form is "How Is Thee?", though I do not know whether the Quakers actually use this phrase...
...Europe has an abundance of only one thing-armaments-and since Hitler himself has set the example of barter, I suggest that we trade with him on his own terms-that we barter bushels for battleships, beef for bombers, grain for guns...
...other Hollywood leading man of George Brent's stature appeared in so unassuming a picture, it would suggest that either his studio or his agent was quarreling with him or that he had begun to slip. In fact George Brent is on excellent terms with his agent, Minna Wallis (sister of Warner's production chief, Hal Wallis), Warner is happily paying him $3,000 a week, and his popularity was never greater. His willingness to work in almost any kind of picture is only one element in Cinemactor Brent's reputation as a man of mystery...