Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
...officer named Franz Hipper: an opportunistic Raeder recognized the agent. For his superior's approval he worked with selfless care, charted courses down to a minnow's fin, was everything that a junior officer should be-except in his pint size. Franz Hipper often boomed to his bantam favorite: "When I become an admiral, I'll make you my chief of staff...
That the blandest, most brazen U.S. Naziphile was out of circulation was good news for the U.S. But even better was the news that bald, bantam-beaked Attorney General Francis Biddle was cracking down at last on U.S. citizens who love the Axis...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...
Such a man too is Frank Morisette, 55, a fighting bantam who set up Chrysler's gun arsenal, cut the finishing time on anti-aircraft guns from 400 hours to 15 minutes. Morisette's standard approach to all problems is: "Let's go out and look at the goddamn thing." Such is Eddie Hunt, 50, of Chrysler's tank arsenal, who is built like an iron safe and never wore a white shirt until last year. Such is slim Roscoe Smith, the Willow Run manager, a veteran tool & diemaker, who at 50 looks...