Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Containing most of Cohan's more popular songs with James Cagney in the title role. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is as red, white, and blue a fautasy as Cohan himself could ask for. Cagney dances, sings, and mugs through a better than average story, and a wonderful series of songs. "Its A Grand Old Flag," "Mary," "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway." "Over There," and a number of others are all done up in a flag-waving style that, fortunately, is never quite overdone...
...direct descendants of Founder Joseph followed his widow Emma into the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (140,000 members) with headquarters at Independence, Mo. They still hotly insist that Joseph had only one wife instead of the 28 claimed for him by Utah Mormons, ask why, if he had five children by Emma, he had none by the other...
...Peace was to be filmed drew cries of anxious alarm from such Britons as H. G. Wells, Compton Mackenzie, Eric Linklater, and produced in the London Times a letter: "With dismay we have heard that it is to be made into a cinematograph film. . . We would ask what degree of supervision, and by whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think it would be someone from Barbaria who would...
...post-war cooperation means that Americans are to underwrite a British old regime which is patently obsolete is not the least serious of the barriers to be overthrown. The British Empire of the past with its mixture of paternalism and repression has plainly had its day. What, Americans ask, do we intend...
...Somewhere on the road, he has met the democratic upsurge, and he has recognized it. You cannot invent this stuff. You have to feel it. Willkie has merely read the faces of plain people from Los Angeles to London to China, and has thus been moved to ask for a second front, a worldwide offensive, a free China, a political offensive to win the common man, and a timetable for the end of colonialism in the Pacific. He has become suddenly powerful, not because he is a charming man, but because he has read it right, and said it straight...