Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again, in a film that is not easily forgotten...
Will the Germans, retreating to the Reich, do their best to leave the lost cities of Europe in utter ruin...
...Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry greater praise in the accolade: 'I am an American...
...completely reversing the regional board, the WLB : 1) condemned the union for its "utter disregard" of its contract, which contained a no-strike clause; 2) upheld the firing of the 41. Then, in blunt, unequivocal words to labor, WLB held: "Management's right to discipline employes for cause is recognized. ... To say that management has no right to impose discipline . . . would impose an insuperable obstacle in the way of management...
...variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...