Word: cutenesses
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...Dear Mom: Well, here we are in Normandy. I saw a cute little piggy-wiggy today, Mom, and gracious was he cute. That's what I'm fighting for, Mom - little piggy-wiggies and little ducky-wuckies and little lambie-wambies and, oh, just oodles of young, free things to brighten a brave new world. Your loving...
...through some highly Technicolored, highly ordinary motions, and every nurse in the picture (Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Carol Thurston) is a shinier pippin than the one before. Typical characterization: Dr. Cooper imitating the grunt of a razorback hog and murmuring, "Good gravy!" Typical set: a remote Chinese village as cute as Christmas and twice as cheerful. Typical nurse: a little native number named Three Martini (Carol Thurston), who keeps her nurse's dress unbuttoned to expose a prettily filled Javanese brassiere. Typical pathos: a blinded Alabamian (named Alabam) who outhears everybody else and who, whenever there is dangerous confusion...
...West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian Assassin." Three days after Pearl Harbor, he arrived at Santa Ana to start building the air base. He liked parties, told cute stories, refereed cadets' football games. Townspeople and cadets liked...
...dexterity or accuracy or patience or pride in work, women are not second to men. . . . [These women] are wondering what their position will be when the war is over. Are the governments and employers going to say: 'Well, girls, you have done a nice job; you looked very cute in your overalls and we appreciate what you have done for us; but run along now; go home; we can get along without...
...fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...