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...vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more for our money if we decline to be bothered by them...
...Cards grumbled about playing on the same field with a Negro. They changed their minds-under pressure. Philadelphia was worse, because there the opposition had the open support of Phillies Manager Ben Chapman. He bawled insults at Robinson from the dugout. Chapman's second-division Phillies, notoriously the crudest bench-jockeys in baseball, chimed in. Says Rookie Robbie: "I'd get mad. But I'd never let them know it." The Phillies management finally called down Chapman. He had his picture taken with Robinson to prove to everyone that the ugly reports weren't true...
Though this is a film that should draw a guffaw or two from all but the most sedate, the humor all too frequently descends to either the crudest of slapstick or aged witticisms of the "who was that lady I saw you with last night" ilk. But Hope seems to have the uncanny ability of wringing a smile of some sort out of the Himsiest of material, by means of a sidelong leer, a sucer, or a facial contortion. And it's pleasant to see Hollywood give one of its standard plot formulas a genuine kidding for a change. They...
When the Pierres have done their worst and, dying, leave Edith free, Novelist Johnson brings up her crudest artillery: a doctor with whom the girl is hopelessly in love and a healthy little girl whom she likes. Edith's short final scenes with them are sharp and painful enough to vindicate a good deal of maundering in the body of the book...
...last pin was knocked from the gate to the great port of Antwerp last week. It took one of the crudest ship-to-shore battles of the war to finish...