Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California's purple-tempered Thomas Francis Ford has had enough. Though he is sure of reelection for the seventh time from his downtown Los Angeles district, he refuses to run. His reason: The U.S. House of Representatives is "the least enlightened and dumbest bunch I ever had anything to do with." Explained 1,000% New Dealer Ford: "I'm damn sick and tired of being in the majority and having the minority run the House...
...Passage to Marseille" spends too much time on the background material, the escape of a bunch of convicts from Devil's Island who want to fight on our team, and the plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...
...alert. But it is no mystery to Papa Diligenti. He planned it that way, even registering the births in different offices or not at all. Midwife Delfino kept her pledge. The household was mum as clams. Forceful Papa Diligenti had made his wishes clear: "Do I want a bunch of maniacs running through my house, bulbs flashing in my babies' faces? I want my children to live normal lives. . . . I don't want to have to visit my own children. . . . Dionne was not prepared...
Private Charles Abromowitz: "The Germans are a bunch of tough boys. I just hate 'em. I think they have gotten the whole world in an uproar. I'm sure looking forward to going...
...solemn Nine Old Men. Solemnly, the staid New York Times deplored "the unstable Court . . . with its recent astonishing record of dissents . . . confusion and uncertainty." Sardonic, pink-faced Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch took a slightly merrier view. He pictured the Justices as a bunch of middle-aged gamins, pinking one another's skulls with legal slingshots...