Word: tokening
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John (Ronald Reagan) comes back from years in Europe to marry pining Mary (Patricia Neal). He is slightly handicapped because he has already entered a token marriage with an English girl-only to get her into the U.S. so that she can marry her long-lost love and John's old buddy (Jack Carson). The handicap gets heavy-and the film heavy-handed-when it turns out that Carson has already married someone else...
With three days practice to remove the effects of holiday indulgences, House League basketball teams will start play Friday for a short ten days before exams. This is a mere spit-in-the-bucket, token operation; the major part of the season always comes in February, after exams...
...months, like a ham actor overplaying a role, Hollywood has been beating its breast and wailing about the hard times. There is plenty of reason for wailing. Studios like Warner and RKO are carrying on only token operations; Eagle-Lion has suspended production. The foreign market is shot, the cost of making pictures has risen skyhigh, like everything else, and who can predict what damage television will eventually do to the movie industry...
...agreeing to lend the little David as a token of "friendly feelings" toward the U.S., Italy's Fine Arts Commission broke a Mussolini-enacted law against exporting Italian art treasures. Never before has a Michelangelo statue-actually carved by Michelangelo, that is-been exhibited...
...token of victory over Maroglio, bumbling Czar Miranda immediately announced a new economic policy. The nub of it: forget about dollars. Said he: "To try to get more dollars out of the U.S. is merely a waste of time." What Argentina should do, he told a meeting of provincial finance ministers, was to buy outside the dollar circuit, as it was already doing in the case of newsprint (from Finland) and of oil (from the sterling area). As for the U.S., it was buying Argentine products at the rate of $200 million a year; henceforth Argentina would limit its buying...