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...person of Dudley Digges. As canny, candy-munching In spector Mackenzie, Actor Digges, who can lift a scene with less effort than Raffles steals a necklace, pilfers most of the picture. What he leaves is filched by Dame May Whitty (the lady of The Lady Vanishes). Their threefold larcenies make entertainment as pleasant as pointless...
...minimizing of enemy successes, exaggeration of enemy defeats, the conscious manipulation of sentiments to arouse war spirit, hatred of the enemy at home and sympathy among neutrals abroad. The pattern of propaganda remains the same, though varying in degree and accent according to the country it comes from. The threefold task of propaganda ministries will still be in World War II as it was in World War I: 1) to undermine enemy morale; 2) hearten home forces; 3) give neutrals the very best impression possible...
...causes of the tutoring school situation, according to the Advocate, are threefold: poor teaching and poor course organization; the presence of the schools as an encouragement to "average laziness"; and the presence of lazy and uninterested students...
There was a pretty threefold situation: 1) Expensively lodged in the Commodore, with his lawyers and lieutenants of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike...
...which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed threefold...