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Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr. Cole has placed couples or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow. | uses | {
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Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr. Cole has placed couples or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow. | placed | {
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There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish. | is | {
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There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish. | sings | {
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There is no reason why most theatergoers should not have a pretty good time at `` Donnybrook '', unless they are permanently in the mood of Enright when he sings about how easily he could hate the lovable Irish. | hate | {
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We can all breathe more easily this morning - more easily and joyously, too - because Joshua Logan has turned the stage show, `` Fanny '', into a delightful and heart-warming film. | breathe | {
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We can all breathe more easily this morning - more easily and joyously, too - because Joshua Logan has turned the stage show, `` Fanny '', into a delightful and heart-warming film. | turned | {
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The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol 's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed. | taking | {
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The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol 's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed. | was | {
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More than the fans of Pagnol 's old films and of their heroic star, the great Raimu, were looking askance at the project. | looking | {
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But now the task is completed and the uncertainty resolved with the opening of the English-dialogue picture at the Music Hall yesterday. | is | {
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Whether fan of the Pagnol films or stage show, whether partial to music or no, you can n't help but derive joy from this picture if you have a sense of humor and a heart. | derive | {
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Dan Morgan told himself he would forget Ann Turner. | told | {
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Dan Morgan told himself he would forget Ann Turner. | forget | {
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He was well rid of her. | was | {
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He certainly did n't want a wife who was fickle as Ann. | want | {
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If he had married her, he 'd have been asking for trouble. | married | {
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If he had married her, he 'd have been asking for trouble. | asking for | {
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But all of this was rationalization. | was | {
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Sometimes he woke up in the middle of the night thinking of Ann, and then could not get back to sleep. | woke up | {
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His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing. | revolved around | {
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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that would n't allow it. | be | {
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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that would n't allow it. | sell out | {
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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work. | poisoned | {
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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work. | was | {
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Each day he found himself thinking less often of Ann ; each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant. | found | {
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He had plenty of work to do. | had | {
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He could not afford to lose a drop of the precious water, so he spent most of his waking hours along the ditches in his meadows. | afford | {
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He had no idea how much time Budd would give him. | had | {
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He had no idea how much time Budd would give him. | give | {
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In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence. | had | {
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He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm. | stopped | {
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He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm. | studied | {
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He stopped every few minutes and leaned on his shovel as he studied the horizon, but nothing happened, each day dragging out with monotonous calm. | happened | {
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When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle. | saw | {
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When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle. | walk | {
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When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle. | quit | {
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It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up. | be | {
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It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up. | thought up | {
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No one walked in this country, least of all Ed Dow or Dutch Renfro or any of the rest of the Bar B crew. | walked | {
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Morgan watched the two figures for a time, puzzled. | watched | {
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He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream. | cleaned | {
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He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream. | picked up | {
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He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream. | started | {
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His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house. | crawled | {
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His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house. | crossing | {
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His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house. | angling | {
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Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet. | saw | {
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"move%2:38:03::"
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Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet. | staggering | {
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"stagger%2:38:00::"
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Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet. | found | {
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] | [
"find%2:31:10::"
] |
Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet. | remain | {
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] | [
"remain%2:30:00::"
] |
Reaching the house ahead of them, he waited with his Winchester in his hands. | Reaching | {
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Reaching the house ahead of them, he waited with his Winchester in his hands. | waited | {
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"wait%2:42:00::"
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty. | crawled | {
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty. | came on | {
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"come_on%2:30:02::"
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty. | saw | {
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty. | were | {
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door. | were | {
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"be%2:42:03::"
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door. | fell | {
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"fall%2:30:08::"
] |
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