Word: dopey
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...major-league ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
Died. Eddie Collins, 56, sad-eyed, fluttery-faced, burlesque-to-cinema comedian who served as inspiration for Walt Disney's celebrated "Dopey" (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}] of heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif...
...noble effort, but in craftsmanship, color, delicacy of treatment and invention, Gulliver's Travels falls considerably short of Snow White, although reminiscent of it: the Prince and Princess (voices by Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross) suggested Snow White and her Prince. A character named Gabby sometimes suggested Dwarf Dopey, sometimes talked like Donald Duck. In place of Snow White's Seven Dwarfs, there were about 700 Lilliputians, funny in their own right. Prodigious are their engineering feats in moving Gulliver from the coast to their diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver...
...Teruel. Of 500 men who had started the battle there were about 100 filthy, unarmed survivors, silent or snarling, lying dead-beat on a hillside. In a week, with new replacements and an issue of old Russian Imperial Army rifles, they had to slog back into the line, still dopey with fatigue. "You fired till the rifle got too hot to handle; then you opened the bolt and blew down the barrel and let it cool, resting your face on your extended arm, waiting. You got so you were afraid to lift your head again to fire. . . . And then...
...famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent, has brought David up sheltered from the realities of life. A freshman at Stafford, David begins to sample the realities when, egged on by moony old Professor Dopey Daniels (Roland Young), he visits Father No.1, is shocked to find that life for Duke is mostly beer and victuals...