Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enchantment (Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a film version of Rumer Godden's novel Take Three Tenses, is a tear-squeezer which shuttles back & forth between blitz-time London and the gay old '90s. The link is an aged general (David Niven) come home to dream-and to warn the young 'uns against making the same mistakes he did. This leads to so many flashbacks that Enchantment might have sent its audiences into St. Vitus' dance, had it not been for Cameraman Gregg Toland, who completed the picture a few weeks before he died (TIME...
...Tear (rhymes with bear). Image disturbance so violent that the picture seems to fly apart...
...public-housing officials can build two-story cottages or garden apartments housing a hundred people an acre on $8 to $10 a foot slum land. Mr. Mumford's funny arithmetic is based on the assumption that some private Santa Claus was . . . aching to buy this enormously expensive property, tear down and throw away all the old tenements, rebuild the slums, and pay the city full taxes...
Textiles. A new synthetic textile ("the best we know of for outdoor use") was hailed by Du Pont. Called "Orlon," it is described as warm as silk, as wrinkle-resistant as wool, and resistant to moths, molds and mildew. Though nylon is less likely to tear, Du Pont said that nylon, rayon, linen and cotton were "complete failures" in an exposure test which hardly affected Orlon...
...just never got started") freshman has been using up energy on the ice for only seven years. He started figure skating at the age of 12 against his father's wishes. "Dad wanted me to play hockey." Button explains, "but after I won my first medal, you couldn't tear him away from figure skating...