Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel bounces riotously from lecherous high jinks to a crap game in which Horey loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse, where the inhabitants of Rocky Comfort roll on the floor, beat their heads against the walls and dance the cancan in order to get close...
...although Semon Dye has seduced most of the women, consumed most of the corn, and taken most of the money in the immediate neighborhood of Clay Horey's shack, the people of Rocky Comfort are sorry to have the wandering Man of God hit the trail for the next town. He may have brought ruination with him, but he was at least a diversion. Most readers will not believe in any of the characters of Journeyman, but they may be impressed by Mr. Caldwell's violent energy, his satirical thrusts at orgiastic religion...
Anne Shirley gives a capable, but decidedly not inspired, performance, while Helen Westley as the Puritannical and tyrannical stepmother, violently overacts her part. Fortunately the Hollywood moguls have seen fit to give O.P. Heggie the role of the sympathetic man of the family, whose mission is to comfort and console the luck-less pair. It is O.P. Heggie's acting which raises the film asinity to the level of mediocrity...
...Dodge stresses riding and driving comfort particularly this year, and gives itself the significant title of "Air-glide." There are many improvements which make for increased safety and easier steering...
Nash's threat to the low-priced field has a now kind of springing this year, which gives greater comfort and requires no lubrication. Otherwise there isn't much difference, externally...