Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DIRECTOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK IS A BRITISH UPSTART WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLLYWOOD LANGUAGE [TIME, DEC. 18]. THE THING THE HERO CHASES IS NOT A MCGUFFIN, BUT A WENIE AND HAS BEEN EVER SINCE THE DAYS OF MACK SENNETT. THE STOLEN PEARLS WERE PLACED IN A WENIE. THE WENIE WAS...
From this tunnel, while the bands played, the crowd cheered, cowbells rattled in the upper tiers, the Deweys appeared, in a cream-colored touring car, flanked by eight motorcycle cops. Said the script: "After Governor Dewey enters, Von Zell brings many stars to the microphone to describe the scene during...
In Brooklyn, Abby and Martha Brewster (played with twinkling good humor by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, creators of the stage roles) are looked upon as just two fluttery old maids lovingly taking care of a crack-brained nephew (John Alexander) who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Little do the...
To Jimmy Hines, political activity was life, and vice versa. During his gaudy years as a Tammany boss the line formed each morning outside his bedroom door. Supplicants began filing past his bed as soon as he awakened. He listened, smiling genially, to them all. They were the basis of...
The Separation. In 1919 the doughboy got the money due him and a railroad ticket home. What happened after that was his lookout. What happens after this war will also be his lookout but the Army is going to give him a better start. Last time, the jobless were back...