Word: trowel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly colored, overwhimsical film version suffers because Director Michael Curtiz seems unable to decide whether he is reading from a fairy tale or a police blotter. Sometimes the archness is laid on with a trowel, sometimes the trifling action stops dead for overdetailed explanations. Bogart plays his role pretty straight; Aldo Ray is disconcertingly elfin for an alleged sex fiend; and Ustinov's mugging seems overdone. Basil Rathbone and John Baer wander onscreen long enough to look properly villainous. Joan Bennett and Gloria Talbott add their pretty confusions to the artificial turmoil. Technicolor gives the picture a fairly handsome...
...Franciscan nun with a round, grandmotherly face stepped out of her office into the Los Angeles sunshine one morning last week, threaded her way between pieces of lumber and piles of bricks until she spotted a trowel. Picking it up, she laid a brick in businesslike fashion, smiled happily at the nearest bricklayer and said: "Thank God it is going...
...eggs in the house and later in the woods behind the presidential cottage. After breakfast, the grownups, dressed in their Easter finest, went to church. Afterward, the President laid the cornerstone for a new church building. A building contractor in the crowd commented on his dexterity with the silver trowel. "I used to do it on the farm," Ike explained with a grin...
...first in ten years. On opening day alone, 10,000 people came. The 60 oils looked very much like all his others. Quinquela used to hustle coal on the docks when he was a youngster, and his technique shows it: he heaves the paint onto the canvas, using a trowel (slightly trimmed in size) instead of a brush...
Widener never had to make the decision. On the way back from Europe the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Harry and his father were drowned. His mother, Eleanor Elkins Widener survived and a year later at Commencement used a silver trowel to lay the cornerstone for the Widener Library. Two years later at the 1915 Commencement, the Library, and in it the Memorial Rooms, opened...