Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeant Diamond? Why, my boy, he has been in the Marines ever since they were started...
Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond is not 167 years old, but the oldest generals cannot remember when the Marines' famed mortar expert was not somewhere around. Lou Diamond's age is a secret between him and his service-record book, but his friends remember his pitching a one-hit game for the Quantico Marines many years ago, when he must have been at least 50. He rested on that feat, never pitched again...
...vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
...into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their rakish diamond tactics may soon be Whiffenpoofed to a grey-flannel sophistication...
...Rewards. Last week Art Tilt was a happy man-his company was going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed...