Word: chump
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...mask is stripped away, and he reveals his own doubts about her fidelity. The transition from dumb old chump to jealous husband is disconcerting in its suddenness, but otherwise effective. Larry Bryggman is good as Duff, the husband, and Josephine Lane is out-standing as his wife Beth...
...previous films this year (The Stalking Moon and MacKenna's Gold), Peck was saddled with period western costume. In The Chairman he is restored to mufti as John Hathaway, Nobel-prizewinning chemist, professor and all-round chump. Hathaway allows the combined intelligence forces to se crete an aspirin-sized transmitter in his head. He is blissfully unaware that the capsule also contains an explosive that can be triggered back at headquarters...
There is of course, no logical reason for this abrupt turnabout. The winter facilities are inadequate, but most coaches agree that the quality of the auditorium does not transform the chump into a champion. All the spring teams got their share of breaks, but in most cases, they made their breaks...
...remind also that of those who seek now to build duchies of hatred on Dr. King's death. many had disdained him, patronized him, scorned him, sneered at him, as De Lawd, as Chump, though he left scars on the map of history as no burning city could...
...customary oxymoronic oratory, advising his listeners that the U.S. has 13 concentration camps where it plans to put Negroes and that "America gave us a black astronaut just so's they could lose that nigger in space." Then came the familiar peroration: "Stop singing and start swinging, chump. Get a gun." As the crowd broke up, a Negro girl skipped down the street happily chanting "We're going to have a riot, we're going to have a riot...