Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have not made the normal replacements to offset ordinary wear and tear...
They plan to tear apart the existing financial, social, and mechanical defects and then to propose an alternate scheme, radically revising the election system...
...selection considerably excels that in the Caldwell-Bourke-White collaboration, You Have Seen Their Faces, or in Archibald MacLeish's poem with photographs, Land of the Free. The text has dignity and is compactly informative. Many of the captions are direct quotations-their strong immediacy undermined by the tear-jerking inherent in dialect re-used by sophisticates...
...fresh and clean and sober gang came in to take them home. "Well," he said, "I guess we won't ever be anything but sad. But gosh, I majored in the Crimson, and if I wasn't so drunk and pied I'd shed a tear for the Crimson." Arthur apparently can't write an editorial but he can do a lot of dirty work and we need a guy like that around here every year. "Jim has never learned how to be a hot jazz fan, and in consequence of this failing I am very sad for Jim," said...
...Child Is Born (Warner Bros.) records with varying degrees of self-conscious pathos and humor the birth of seven infants. In this somewhat redundant remake of the tear-jerking stage play, Life Begins, first screened in 1932, grave, talented, strikingly lovely Geraldine Fitzgerald plays the mother who dies (from a Caesarean operation) that her baby may live. Other maternity-ward performers: Spring Byington, Gloria Holden, Gladys George, and 20 babies (average age 14 days), who, by working a total of 73 seconds, earning $75, became Hollywood's highest-paid actors. From their pay checks the far-sighted...