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World War II: Volunteered for combat duty as an air-force lieutenant (navigator), fled France after the Nazi victory, was caught in Morocco and sentenced by Vichy to six years in prison for "dese-tion," but made a hacksaw-and-bedsheet escape to the underground and then to the De Gaulle forces in England. Made bombing raids over France and Germany...
...Serve dem right! ... All dese big puff-up high-color people-Ah never sorry when . . . they get tek down...
...been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links of mine musta hooked on your watch chain dere...
...Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin' to hockey games or fights, an' I say, why not bring hockey or fights here, so guys can see sports and drink atta same time. So I buy dese gadgets. Slump in business stopped...
...date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids" who are often the leaders in some of the city's schools...