Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They managed to have some fun; they took in the sights, had more dates than they had ever had in their lives. During occasional air raids, some achieved the WAC ambition: to bolt from barracks, crouch in a slit trench and duck back to bed at the "all clear" without really waking up. Instead of, "What's cooking?" they said, "Nervous in the service...
Answered the President: a "little inflation" is like a little opium: soon you want more, then you have the habit. If food prices soared, labor would bolt through the Little Steel formula; presently all prices-including what the farmer wanted to buy-would get out of hand...
...lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
...boost the morale of women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors." When Maisie tries to prevent this assignation, Iris denounces her for sabotage. But Iris winds up with a wastebasket rammed over her head, while Maisie winds up in the arms of her airman...
...last Paramount woke up, but it made Hope wake up also. Before handing him the lead in The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Producer Arthur Hornblow talked to Hope like a Dutch uncle, told him he'd do anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through many another comedy thriller (The Ghost Breakers, My Favorite Blonde, They Got Me Covered), strutted down the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco...