Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart was an obvious, as well as fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry's best friends, he started a fashion since copied by Critic Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version...
What happened could only be pieced together from what was left of the plane after it crashed and burned, and what was left of the truth when eyewitnesses had had time to use their imaginations. Said an authoritative non-witness, William A. Patterson, president of United: "Neither of the two engines was in operation at the moment of impact. This is the first time in our experience of flying 75,000,000 miles with twin engine airplanes that we have had what appears to be simultaneous power failure of both engines...
...Married An Angel has to do with Count Willy Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one (Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of trouble with the groom's friends and depositors...
...interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics as "a dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit the old fallacy of expressing the term "dead languages" in a tone of contempt. To postulate as a self evident truth the fact that there is nothing of importance in the doings of man before 1900, is to exhibit a downright ignorance of the past and foolishly sublime confidence in the present. The test of and education lies in the degree to which it strengthens individual character. Certainly, experience has shown...
Alibi. Since it is unpleasant for any Great Power to have to offer its money at cut rates, the excuse of dire emergency is always offered in such cases, and Orator Daladier went on the air with this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a very bad condition; that legitimate profit is tending to disappear; that partial unemployment is increasing in every branch of industry; that our trade balance is impoverishing us; that our production figures are a humiliation for all Frenchmen...