Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housing, and even entertainment, and stalked out if they didn't think the price was right. Las Vegas' luxurious gambling hells lost trade. So did the nation's movie theaters. Top pictures like The Yearling and The Hucksters had to be well-ballyhooed, or audiences were thin. Because of the expense, both marriages and divorces had fallen off since the summer of 1946. In the heat, thousands of citizens everywhere thriftily painted and repaired their own houses...
Hard-boiled and well-fed economists might contend that the British were wrong to spend so much money on food and tobacco. But even with the dollar food purchases, the British diet had remained on the thin line that divides discomfort from malnutrition. If British workers had eaten less in the last year they probably would have produced less...
...short life he had known nothing but hardship and hunger. Erich Kaniss was a small, silent, Berlin boy, with weary eyes in a thin, pinched face. He had been four when the war began. Now he was twelve...
Possibly Hollywood, which is capable of blushing, has heard about the pot and the kettle; in any case, unsure pacing and thin delivery cause a lot of the wickedest haymakers against radio and money-love to land rather light. For all Actor Greenstreet's enthusiasm, Soap Sponsor Evans is so fantastically brutal that most people may think him a freak, rather than a personification of one kind of big-business tyranny. And Adolphe Menjou, expert as he is as the head of the agency, appears more interested in getting laughs than in illustrating what...
...still too early to tell what Hollywood will do with Deborah Kerr, or vice versa. She has to huckster a pretty thin role for an actress of her charm and ability-and do what she can with it while M-G-M is huckstering the daylights out of her. She goes through the assigned paces with a good grace, refining them with considerable shrewdness and as much concern for more serious artistry as the heavily commercial traffic will bear...