Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...
...Con. His critics point to his age as his greatest liability as a presidential candidate. They feel that he is pompous, vain and unapproachable, that even though he is a good Senator he would make a poor President because of his lack of administrative training. They feel that his conversion from isolationism came long after most men of intelligence had already made the change, that he is virtually blank on domestic affairs...
...Con. His critics say that he is pedestrian and parochial, that his whole career has been spent in legislative dickering rather than creating or debating broad issues, that in many respects his administration would just be a G.O.P. version of the Truman Administration...
...Con. His critics feel that he is both immature and calculating-a man who has taken a stand on so many issues that he not only appears to be all things to all men but is confused in his own mind. (He began an article for PM last fall with the sentence: "Joseph V. Stalin has, I think, an open mind," now calls for outlawing the Communist Party in the U.S.) They feel that his habit of proposing a five-or ten-point panacea for every problem shows glibness and cockiness rather than sureness and knowledge. They point out that...
...Con? Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...