Word: craig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth May Craig, Washington correspondent of a string of Maine newspapers, picked the word up and tossed it back at him: "I have a contentious question, Mr. President, but I would like a serious answer. Are you going to the right or to the left...
...holds. But was he going to change from Dr. Win-the-War back to Dr. New Deal when the war ended? No, no, Franklin Roosevelt said, he was just going a little left of center. Then he laughed. That wasn't much of an answer, was it? Miss Craig agreed tartly...
Last week Harris Wofford Jr., 18, was an Army Air Forces trainee at Alabama's Craig Field. On Armistice Day, his Student Federalists, now several thousand strong in schools and colleges throughout the U.S., celebrated its first anniversary as a national organization...
...Doughgirls (Warners) tardily, joins the overcrowd of comedies about overcrowded Washington, with more than the usual number of fake marriages, misunderstandings, eccentric bit-players, and mirror mazes of French-farcically-slamming doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel...
Between times he turns magician, materializes birds out of blue smoke, hurls knives at royalty, effects a hairbreadth escape from the royal guards, marries off his pretty, dark-haired daughter (Joy Ann Page) to the handsome young caliph (James Craig), carries off Miss Dietrich for himself. Meantime Miss Dietrich, her renowned legs and lesser anatomy encased in a heavy layer of gold paint, performs a Hollywood nautch dance as politely voluptuous as the Hays office allows...