Word: brat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Brat." Bevan was born 51 years ago in the Welsh hills which are slag-pocked and crumpled like a tattered old flannel blanket. The names of his brothers & sisters sounded like a Celtic fairy tale-Blodwyn, Myfanwy, Arianwen, lorwerth. There was nothing romantic about the Bevans' tiny four-room house with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets...
...Wheeler) who lacks the courage to admit she is Jewish, people are harassed and torn two ways. All this (and kleptomania too) catches the eye of a bullying, power-hungry student (Doe Avedon), a rich trustee's daughter who, when she cannot command, can only conspire. Like the brat in The Children's Hour, she twists and messes up lives, but in this case things get straightened out before...
...afternoon field against Hearst's rough & tumble Herald & Express, Los Angeles may see its lustiest newspaper scrap in a generation. Momentarily on the sidelines, rival Publisher Boddy told the Times to take heart: "Nearly a quarter of a century ago," he wrote, "we adopted a penniless, tattered little brat that was languishing in bankruptcy . . . It kept on keeping on until it has, I fear, become somewhat respectable. So chin up, Norman, it can be done...
...obviously admire Writer-Director Preston Sturges and his cynical gift for playing both ends of a cliche against the audience's middle. Nothing is too stale or too simpleminded: a sheriff (William Demarest) trying to be heroic with one leg in a low-comedy plaster cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism and caricature is Beulah Bondi as the richest woman in town. Another pleasing...
John Kemper's earliest memories are of life as an Army brat, trailing his father, an infantry officer, from post to post, getting a lick-&-a-promise schooling. At West Point, John managed the lacrosse team and was president of the class of '35. Four years later, he went back to the Point to teach history...