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...dialogue, which is often incredibly dull and obvious, and in the mediocrity of acting by Joel McCrea, Queenie Vassar (the grandmother), and Marjorie Rambeau (the mother). Ginger Rogers does well, and adds pictorial value, but trite situations, leading to a particularly obvious conclusion, constantly shine through the veneer and contribute to a dull and disappointing film...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...
President Seymour's Annual Report contains a section on a tenure program for Yale drawn up by a faculty committee. It appears Yale has adopted the Committee of Eight's Report lock, stock, and barrel. A few names have been changed, but underneath this veneer the same situations actually exist...
Behind the elegant veneer of Bucharest society, Rumanian politics are murderously tough. The assassination of King Carol II, for instance, was recently all set to take place at a swank turf classic, according to Bucharest police. Nabbed by detectives in time's nick, the nonchalant plotters were said to have been caught preparing hand grenades, boldly confessing, "We were going to toss them into the Royal Box while everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier...
...side of the country with the tallest mountains. Geography has always decided where wars are fought and how they are fought. World War I was no exception. World War II is not likely to be-even though airplanes add to the geography of war a new three dimensional veneer...