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...necessary to make us appreciate our duties, bring back the troops from the hellholes of the world, place them in the factories-take the war workers and place them in the foxholes with filth, vermin, diarrhea, malaria and the Japanese, and I will guarantee you that our production will be increased, and much of it doubled, within 30 days. We would have no more featherbedding, no more slowdowns, no more restrictions on effort...
Essentially, "The Great Doorstep" is "Tobacco Road" with a Louisiana accent, and without the filth. The former is annoying, and the latter leaves you without even anything to argue about. The result is a waste of the fine comedy sense of Louis Calhern, who plays the leading role of Commodore Crochet, and of the sensitive dramatic talent of Dorothy Gizh, here his over suffering wife...
...about sex, Bessic is blatant and forth-right. Only Bessic rises above mere worlds to give full expression to the hopes and woes of her environment. You can stand the infamous "Empty Bed Biues" because Bessic's vitality and spirit make the song much more than a piece of filth. You can't stand Dinah's "You Made Me Love You." because her shallowness can't even cope with the mild suggestiveness of the lyrics...
...gunners with their guns, drivers with their trucks and jeeps. Mosquito nets are a necessity against anopheles. It rains almost every night-weepy tropical rain that soaks into the bedrolls and seeps through tarpaulin. The nights are passed in wet chill and discomfort and the days in mud and filth that the Marines, who have been too busy fighting, have not had time to clean up. The Marines deal with filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga is one of the daily...
...year-old Tsahai no year was so free, so filled with hope as this one. Back with her parents in Ethiopia, she worked to teach her father's people to avoid filth and disease. She could appear among the tribal chiefs under the yellow umbrellas, talk to them of sanitation and of germs, devising Amharic words to fit her needs. She married Colonel Abiy Abbaba of her father's victorious army...