Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless you're a timeaddict or have let Henry Luce spoil your fun with his picture mag, you'll find Paramount's MacMurray-Stanwyck-Edward G. Robinson thriller good and exciting entertainment, although you may be able to knock a few dents in the plot. James M. Cain writes tough, sharp prose, and judging from "Double Indemnity," his stuff makes even better moviegoing than reading...
...General Dies. During the week the German field commander, Colonel General Friedrich Dollmann, was killed in action, and tough, arrogant Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was reported to have taken personal command of the Nazi troops. That suited Montgomery down to the ground. Monty had met Rommel before...
...Time Is Now." Tough-minded Publisher Knight conceded that guarantees of free exchange of information will not be easily won. But, said he : "It is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It . . . cannot be dodged or put off. The time for accepting it as such is now. . . . The most powerful thing in the world is truth. If news moves freely, and if controls permitting systematic distortion are rigidly prevented, the people may have an abiding faith that truth will prevail. . . . A free and honest press in every country would contribute greatly toward lessening the chance of future wars...
...astounding "heel-stop"- was born of a bad moment. Whizzing across a Vienna lake, he suddenly saw a great gaping hole directly in front of him, frantically dragged his heels and lifted his toes, applied the brakes and was able to stop just in time. It is still a tough job: "I have to stop on a dime-and I don't mean a nickel." Three years ago, at the Center, he "missed the dime," pitched over the footlights, broke...
...fortune of $5,000,000, enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...