Word: cuting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gorgeous Bachelor Girl Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) was doing just about as well bossing a Fifth Avenue department store as British Cinemactress Carroll is doing in U. S. pictures. Gail knew all the answers and none of them was masculine. But when cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending...
...hang of their striped trousers, was just true enough to make many a grave, correct, dry-worded gentleman in the Department dislike the appointment of Joe Kennedy to London. They correctly foresaw such incidents as Kennedy's telling Queen Elizabeth to her face that she was "a cute trick." They did not foresee that Queen Elizabeth would be pleased and flattered beyond words...
...Never be bumptious but never fail to be bumptious when you ought to be. Chances seemed even that many a young reader, stifling a yawn and an out-of-step feeling that Author Boyle's camel was not only a dromedary but an allegory, and too consciously cute, would leave the book where their less jaded elders would be sure to find and enjoy...
...long ago the Lascelles boys, with a group of fellow Etonians, inspected some antiaircraft guns at Leeds. They used their observations for a 900-word lead story in the August issue of Harewood News, illustrating it with cute pictures of a gun and a bomber. A copy of the News found its way to the Manchester Daily Express, which sent the story to its London office, which sent a reporter to the War Office...
...CUTE?' SAYS...