Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deals in a rather hotcha fashion with one Adolf Hitler, whose plans were frustrated by "That Russian Winter." To top it off, the dance routines were performed by Cossacks in shiny boots and bright silk shirts--the standard, romanticized view of the Russian people. Granted that the show was corn through and through, wonderful and very enjoyable corn, Berlin should have thought of something that didn't insult the intelligence of anyone who has read even one communique from Russia...
...this job Painter Binford was paid in produce. "The local Negroes," he explains, "who have spent months posing for and watching me paint this mural, inaugurated for my benefit and unknown to me a 'Harvest Home' in their church." Now the Binfords have enough preserves, potatoes, beets, corn, chickens to tide them over the winter...
...fact of the matter is that both the strange and ancient names are as familiar to corn-fed Ike Eisenhower as Wichita and John Brown. To the student of military history that he is, Hannibal is an open textbook. To Lieut. General Eisenhower, who for months had been poring over maps, even Tizi-Ouzou is well known...
...daughter of a St. Paul train dispatcher. At nine her voice was already strained from an amateur overload of singing, reciting, quipping. When her parents moved to Los Angeles, Joan signed for three years on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. Her partner (in a vaudeville act of unalloyed corn) was Si Wills, who soon became her husband. Quitting the road in 1936, Wills & Davis settled in Hollywood. In the next six years Joan graduated from cinema bit parts to featured parts...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...