Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Button's routine in competition lasts over five minutes. This is nearly twice as long as a hockey forward's turn on the ice and every bit as taxing, since it involves continuous leaps and twirls. These leaps and twirls are Button's specialty...
...sometime thing, after all-Monro is not talking. He would like to write a novel someday, and not about the war, either. He drops in at the Armory every week for whatever sort of reserve drill they give full Commanders in the Navy. And he talks, a bit wistfully, of the little vacation he's going to take "after everything gets squared away." Beyond this, his plans are vague, except for the assurance that he "aims to be useful...
...World War II broadcasts from Berlin were prompted, she told the jury, by two basic precepts, neither the tiniest bit treasonable: 1) a woman must live, and 2) a woman must love...
...Would be more isolationist until the rest of the world "settled down a bit...
...this bit of nonsense Director Lloyd Bacon might have squeezed a few touches of light satire or screwball comedy. Instead he has played it cute and coy. The only really cute thing in the movie is Betty Lynn, who fits her role as snugly as she fits her sweater. The rest, including Rudy Vallee as another pince-nezed fuddy-duddy, is synthetic fluff, which ought to do well in the neighborhood houses by the time hot weather comes...