Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening with a shot of the funeral of Dr. John Abbott in the little midwest town of Westport, A Man to Remember shifts quickly to the office where Abbott's lawyer is examining his papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from...
...like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted the truck parked behind a hangar...
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...guess I've asked you enough questions (curiosity sure has the old gal down!) for one letter. Oh, no--one more--tell me how to start capturing your heart...
...chanteuse continued in a slightly more realistic vein as she urged all students to come and see her show. "Tell them that I love them all dearly," she said, "and that if they don't all come to see me, each and every one of them, yes, the whole ten thousand of them, during my two weeks in Boston, I'm going to be terribly disappointed. And tell them that I want them to cheer madly when I make my entrance so that I'll know that they are there...