Word: amurricans
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...current release is full of cliches peculiar to Fibber McGee, the small-town, middle-class would-be emulator of Will Rogers. In "Heavenly Days," McGee goes to Washington and makes a damn fool of himself by trying to make a speech from the Senate gallery in praise of the Amurrican virtues as they are vulgarly conceived. Apparently the Army authorities who have to interpret Congress' law thought that some of the things Fibber said might be considered anti-Administration propaganda, but they have now realized that it's all quite harmless, and not even funny...
...musician of sorts himself: performs occasionally on the flute, has written a Melody in a Major which Violinist Fritz Kreisler rendered in a public concert at London last May and which thereupon became a best-seller throughout Britain. But Ambassador Dawes is always first & foremost a 100% "Amurrican." Just as Benjamin Franklin wore a coonskin cap in Paris and the late Alexander Pollock Moore gave stock-market tips and slapped backs in Madrid, so Ambassador Dawes strives to do that which is expected of him by the English. He might welcome U. S. college jazz bands to the court...
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