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...know just who to blame for this play. Everybody knows about the red haired Virgin Goddess from Connecticut. You can take her or leave her. Most people want to take her. And Nugent-well, he has a rare sense of comedy, a loping walk, a straightforward manner that is tailor-made to unfreeze the sort of female Hepburn usually plays. Neither of them is up to par in "Without Love," but the real weakness is in the play itself. Barry couldn't decide whether he wanted to write a drawing room comedy or a social drama, so he tried...
...Tailor-made for Miss Shearer, who has been off the screen for a year, Dancing is a costly, embarrassing picture, whose mood and manners are both dated and false...
Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, one of the three best-selling novels of 1939, was an exceedingly well-told problem story of the troubles of being a second wife; it was tailor-made for the land of high divorce rates. Frenchman's Creek, just as well-told, is even nearer that bull's-eye where best-sellers are scored: the heart of the U.S. housewife...
...demand for fast precision manufacturing was tailor-made for air conditioning. Temperature changes in the average factory (often 15° in 24 hours) can alter delicate gauges and machines several ten-thousandths of an inch-too much. Apart from this, conditioning keeps out dust & dirt, prevents sweating hands from etching, tarnishing or rusting highly polished metal surfaces. Munitions makers rushed to sign...
...pharmacist in Manhattan's old Bellevue Hospital, later studied medicine at Indiana Medical College, moved, after several stops, to the little town of Rochester, Minn., 75 miles from Minneapolis. To eke out his meager earnings as a physician, the lively young man worked at various times as druggist, tailor, horse doctor, ferryman on the Minnesota River...