Word: feeblest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted its feeblest champion...
...show is a platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...
...both top and bottom halves of the current doubleheader on the Square, Keenan Wynn and Jack Carson, a brace of Hollywood's better wits, find themselves stymied by some of the feeblest of material. Garbed in the inevitable technicolor. "The Time, The Place, and The Girl" turns out to be an all-too-typical musical, straight off the moviemakers seemingly endless assembly line. Jack Carson does his best to liven things up a bit, handling a sparse handful of gags with a veteran hand, and most of the musical numbers, though of no great significance, are pleasant enough...
...stars--actors, singers, dancers, band leaders-all rolled up into one supposedly stupendous entity. unlike the real thing, however, the picture lacks that thrill of intimate contact which-insured the success of its real-life predecessor and substitutes a series of Acts, some good, some bad, with just the feeblest at tempt at a unifying theme...
Partnership Party. The Axis could take no comfort from the election, and made only the feeblest attempts to do so. As concerned the war, the mandate was clear: the Republican Party was now a full-fledged partner. No longer could the Republican minority in Congress sit by as grandstand critic, make its protests for the record, leave policy up to the New Deal, take none of the responsibilities and wait to capitalize on the mistakes. Henceforth, if the war went badly, the G.O.P. would share the blame...