Word: custards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meets Siren, but winds up happily in wifey's arms; and the tough guy, it turns out is all custard filling underneath. Perhaps one reason why Lunatics and Lovers keeps straining so hard to seem amusingly sinful is that all the time it is really playing safe...
Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...
...state consumes only 1.4%. Once a year Kentuckians get outside help on their drinking statistics. In Louisville's Brown Hotel Bar on the eve of the 1954 Kentucky Derby, 1,750 mint juleps were downed, mostly by visitors who hardly knew a frosted glass from a frozen custard. # The others: Bachelors Richard Russell, Theodore Green, Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson: Widowers Allen Ellender, Hugh Butler and James Murray...
...fill the screen, and the ordered nonsense is a monument to the direction of Howard Hawks. He has filmed the hectic action without losing either reasonable pace or timing, and the result is a picture that does with clever dialogue what Olsen and Johnson do with pandemonium and underdone custard pies. The only possible improvement would be a more thoughtful spacing of laughs. One can easily miss several excellent boffs while recovering from ones coming just before. The answer is to sit through two shows...
...other half with a competing shampoo. The company keeps a staff of bakers busy developing new recipes for Crisco and its bakery-trade shortenings (latest treat: a chocolate-coated ice-cream cone), is now working with soybean oil in the hope of cashing in on the boom in "frozen custard" and other ice-cream substitutes...