Word: swansong
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...Forties, which includes a good number of dull patriotic epics (Passage to Marseilles) and gangster potboilers. During the making of the cinema landmarks, a famous team of Bogart, Lauren Bacall ("If you want anything, just whistle."), Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Peter Lorre gathered together. The swansong of the team, its leader, and the whole crime movie genre came with Beat the Devil (1954), a parody of Maltese Falcon. Since then, fictional gangsters have become sensitive persons with damaged psyches, and the brutal but efficient good guys a group of prosaic scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers...
...last hair of the tiny mustache on his stiff upper lip, steps up to a curtain behind which he thinks an assassin is hiding. "Why must you do it?" his wife cries. "Because I must," he replies firmly. His answer, in fact the whole picture, is a sort of swansong of the white man who is beginning to stagger under his burden...
...local station for a little chat. "They tell me I can be jailed [possibly for six months]," said the major, as if remembering that Napoleon, too, had written his memoirs in captivity. "It was my last-ever flight," he said. "I meant it as a spectacular swansong...
...usual, the educators were most distressed by their financial plight and by the Federal Government's failure to succor them. George Frederick Zook's swansong as U. S. Commissioner of Education was a harsh honk at President Roosevelt for blocking the gift of $75,000,000 which he was sure the House wanted to make to schools. Education's submerged "masses," the classroom teachers complained that many a city was dismissing them wholesale in favor of young, cheap substitutes...
...party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number...