Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desert Song (Warner) lingers melodiously on from the days (1926-27) when it was a Broadway operetta and the fractious Riffs were all that most people knew about in North Africa. It tries hard to be immediately prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader...
...freedom of U.S. radio. No one at NBC interferes with anything he says or proposes to say. He writes his own material, utters his own opinions. Vandercook rarely goes in for prediction. His military analyses have benefited from his acute sense of geography. Says he: "The tactics of the desert, the tactics of the mountain are geographical. . . . When we take a machine-gun nest in Italy, I don't say the German lines have been smashed. In that kind of terrain, there is no such thing as the smashing of a line. You can smash a line in plains...
...daily tasks which were so habitual in the past; when the mere sounding of a certain name makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before...
Miami > Said Chaplain Morison: "A bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon coming out of the desert is quite a treat." Obviously Southern Baptist Morison meant a treat to tourists, not himself...
...three singing Gumm sisters arrived from their home at the edge of the Mojave Desert to play a week of vaudeville at Chicago's Oriental Theater. Their blood froze when they read the marquee legend: THIS WEEK GEORGE JESSEL and THE GLUM SISTERS...