Word: dering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...
Then Churchill took over. "Now," said Mose, "we gwine win. Chickcharneys got no grudge dere." And with Chamberlain's abandoned railroad track melted down and sent to Britain for scrap, Mose's prediction proved entirely correct...
...Yorkshireman, whose mother was a French Tahitian and whose English was a splendid massacre. Joe once referred to the "United Steaks Conscience, Washington, Disease" which, translated, turned out to be the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. Sometimes he would dream about his abandoned South Sea Eden: "No, sir, dere's no snakes, no sharks, nevaire 'ot, nevaire col'. . . . You don't have to work on de Island- jist pick fruit off de tree. . . . Same when you're hungry for girl. . . . She's laugh and go wit you. . . . An' all de girls . . . is vierge...
...insult the Copacabana's boss ("He can't even spell da name!"). He may insult the menu ("Dere goes a load of ice with three olives. Twelve-fifty for dat load. Somebody's got to pay for da cocktail room!"). He may insult labor when a busboy knocks over a chair ("He's gotta pick it up. No one else can touch it. Union!"). He may challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every...
Letter to a Hero (RKO-Pathe) is written by a small-town schoolteacher (played by Ann Dere) to an erstwhile pupil, a soldier who has just been decorated. While the soldier-whose face never appears-reads it, her voice speaks it. While she speaks, the camera wanders gently and perceptively among the people and places to which she refers-the classroom, the main street by day and by night, the church, the school bus, the soldier's home (a farm) and his parents, the war work of various auxiliaries, a Friday night dance at the High School, a parade...