Word: arrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realized that with the Dominion parliamentary elections coming on March 26, "Canada at War" would do his Cassandra crusade little good. While he continued to rage against the film, accusing MARCH OF TIME of conniving with the Government, Canada at large lost patience with noisy Mitch, and his ban. "Arrant nonsense," snapped the Montreal Star. "It would be difficult to imagine any more puerile or childish action." Actually every country in the world except Soviet Russia and Germany would see the film, and Toronto newspapers republished its dialogue...
Juno and the Paycock shows a family meeting a tragic fate through the weaknesses of a comic character. The Paycock's artful dodges and arrant hypocrisies, his braggart airs and grandly drunken delusions, are uproariously funny. But eventually his besotted dance is over and the piper must be paid. Then the light falls on Juno, who-her son murdered, her daughter betrayed, her home destroyed-goes forth, heart crumpled but head high, to begin life over...