Word: bum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1934 James M. Cain wrote an exciting noval about passion, murder, a bum, and a girl who "really wasn't any raving beauty" but who had a sulky look to her. Now "The Postman Always Rings Twice" is here in the movies, with sheer quantity of kisses pinch-hitting for passion and Lana Turner for the sulky, Mexican-looking woman. Murder and the bum more nearly receive their due, the latter at the hands of John Garfield, but in no way does the picture generate the speed and intensity of the book...
Treasurer's Report. In Cleveland, Alexander Hamilton turned in Calvin Coolidge for passing a bum check...
...jawed Manager Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees, who seldom uses superlatives, wagged his head and said: "He made Dick Merriwell look like a bum...
There is nothing wrong with the story that wasn't wrong in the first place. The bum (John Garfield) still chances in at the roadside eatery, gets one good eyeful of the sex-starved wife (Lana Turner) of the lardy, trusting proprietor (Cecil Kellaway), who bought her underprivileged soul but not her overendowed body; and decides to settle down to serious work for a change...
...charm of Army life, The touch of discipline and strife! The military magic made him hum: With the things he learned He has now returned, Still a bum...