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Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...
Apparently everybody wanted to meet the tall, lean, animated County Cork girl who was Ike's chauffeur. That summer General George Patton invited her and WAC Ruth Briggs (General "Beetle" Smith's secretary) over to Sicily to lunch...
...very sad to see what love can do towards regenerating these two kids-who-never-had-much-of-a-break-in-the-world. But the real, soggy lump in the throat during all the love scenes is that you know, and Dane knows, that Geraldine may cork off at any moment; and that Geraldine doesn't know it at all. The makers of this movie, not caring how morbidly sentimental they got, obviously hope that it will tear your heart...
...wild Irish heroine, given to visions and shakes, whose history includes girlhood in a Cork bordello where a gelded viscount taught her manners...
...Some non-Japanese flower listeners say that the evening primrose (Oenothera) makes a "snapping" sound when it opens. Seed pods, of course, can be much noisier; on warm September days phlox pods explode with a soft pop. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium) of Southern Europe sounds like a cork leaving a champagne bottle, and the tropical sandbox tree (Hura, crepitans) has an orange-sized capsule which "explodes with a loud report...