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...take it back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by inserting near the beginning a telephone scene wherein Melvyn Douglas discovers that the flame he is playing with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails to offend, but fails to excite. The best fun in seeing it comes from noting where the ghost of its former salacious self, keeps bobbing up between the lines and leering. But wherever Sex has stuck...
Quinn returned to Manhattan to sell the plan to the industry. There he ran into three snags: 1) the jealousy of rival trust men; 2) their lack of ready cash, which might force them to sell their own securities in the thinnest market in years; 3) their fear of being accused of taking advantage of the British, buying them out under duress...
...separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...
Last week they dropped again -to a lean six pages -with a starveling four in prospect. Thinnest British paper was the Communist Daily Worker, reduced to a single sheet. Not censorship but dwindling cash and paper stocks forced the Daily Worker to curtail. Hard-hitting Prime Minister Winston Churchill took no chance of alienating Comrade Stalin by cracking down on the Daily Worker. By way of tactful acknowledgment, Moscow papers printed 2,000 words from Churchill's speech on the retreat of the B. E. F. from Flanders...
With such a bill-of-fare, Dodie Smith has had very little dinner to cook; it all comes, ready to serve, in cans. But she has laid the table beautifully, with the bes, china, the oldest silver and the thinnest glass. And though she goes in pretty heavily for thick white cream sauce, she has favored sauce piquante also, even uses a drop or two of tabasco...