Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asinine laugh and waving hands, manages to get tangled up with Joan Blondell, chocolate dipper in one of the Ames' factories, and wishes to make her his adopted daughter. Moonfaced Jack Oakie steps in and further complicates the plot until the doughty Donald whips him soundly in a knock-em-down-and-drag-em-out battle which is conducted off-stage to the tune of breaking glass and falling objects to preserve the unities and Donald...
Immature though his sense of generality may be, Playwright Shaw displays an easy, forceful style of writing. Says one of his live soldiers to another: "Kids shouldn't be dead, Charley. That's what they musta figured when the dirt started fallin' in on 'em. . . . Did they want to be standin' there when the lead poured in? They wanted to be home readin' a book or teachin' their kid c-a-t spells cat or takin' a woman out into the country in an open car with the wind blowin...
...That's a good crew," said salty, bushy-browed Captain Gregory Cullen in Jersey City last week. "I'd sail again with that crew. They're all right, take 'em some place where they won't be terrorized by the Reds in America. The only men we're dropping here in New York are some waiters, and that's just for incompetence. They pour soup down your back...
...horn-rimmed monocle and a gleaming Malacca stick, Captain Cullen sniffed and snorted: "This talk about insolent stewards is just a lot of g- -d hooey and lies. Why, there was not a steward logged [fined] except a couple for getting drunk. And I'd log 'em if there were any reason...
...from Missouri," growled Colonel "Break-Em-Up" Apted '06, as the refused yesterday to take any notice of the petition now circulating in an effort to raise the bicycle ban imposed last week by the doughty strong arm of College law and order...