Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association. His War record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks...
Harvard students have been "rioting" for years, but nothing will ever come of it, if the "riot" is handled wisely and sanely by men who are prepared to deal with student demonstrations, and whose job it is to "break 'em up." It was the idiotic, bludgeoning tactics of a few men, armed with weapons that they did not know how to use, that made a mountain out of a mole-hill...
Alice Faye, meanwhile, is Jack's blond angel who also warbles on occasion. The figure and the smile are still there. Patsy Kelly, as Winchell's girl Friday, continues to "knock 'em cold". Nod Sparks, judging from his performance in this picture, will continue to be seen on the screen for a long time, if he doesn't swallow his cigar first...
Nine, ten, stamp 'em again...
...struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page: "You've got to have some certainties at breakfast. You've got to have some English written in a style living, appropriate...