Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Fontaine, in her performance of a girl whose shyness is pitiful to watch, is the best part of this movie. She spends a great deal of time listening entranced to Jourdan's piano playing and hiding behind curtains and doors, but manages to smile wistfully, even while sinning...
...weapons for secret warfare exist. That I am competent to assure you . . . In a secret war the country under attack might wither as a nation, without knowing it had even been sick . . . Those who watch vital statistics might discover a suspicious increase in infant mortality-for the year ending a year ago. New pests would appear that survived the usual sprays. Cattle would develop diseases the county agents had never seen...
...work in the mill, Dumaine became boss, ran it for 30 years. When the mill, short of cash, collapsed in the depression, Dumaine was raked over at a congressional hearing for the way he had run the company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting down his activities in favor of more horseback riding near his Groton, Mass, home, Dumaine had a hand in running, as a director, a score...
...Edith Summerskill, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food, shrilled that the film was "likely to pervert the minds of the British people." The Bishop of London, as chairman of the Public Morality Council, sent a protest. Watch committees from the provinces hustled to London to pass judgment. Last week, after threat of banning, the picture was pruned a bit. Out went the kicking scene, also one where a gangster smashed a decanter across the face of an unoffending barkeep. However, the producers promised that, for export, No Orchids would remain unexpurgated...
Some half a hundred residents of the Business School's Hamilton Hall gathered to watch what had originally been a policeman's request for "a piece of apparatus" materialize into a full-dress motorcade...