Word: brat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear Ruth (by Norman Krasna; produced by Joseph M. Hyman and Bernard Hart) is a sure-fire popular comedy about the young, exploiting an amusing (if familiar) situation for comedy, farce and romance alike, and framing it in the fat plush of family life. A teen-age brat named Miriam Wilkins (Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees...
Meanwhile Colonel Perón and the proud Argentines were exhilarated, most Latin Americans were secretly (or openly) delighted, and even some North Americans were amused to see the brat from the Rio de la Plata stand up and sass back the Colossus of the North...
There is, of course, a plot. The plot represents a woman who is all bet up on having a baby and a man who is palpitating to bring Holywood entertainment to OUR BOYS. The man (George Raft) gets killed and the woman (Miss Zorina) forgets about the brat and becomes a camp-to-camp crusader for the higher life (as portrayed by Mr. Fields...
...Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That's for me, Guglielmo Rosson...
Beard's defense of Alexander Hamilton is typical of Beard's shift in emphasis. It is true, says Beard, that Hamilton thought of the "people" as a "great beast." But in The Federalist the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler" (as John Adams called Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard...