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Word: chiclet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems all but inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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