Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hemisphere' solidarity- Mexico, more than any other Latin American country, has been fronting for the U.S-it was indeed fine to have what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the so-called petroleum question" out of the way. The faintest suggestion that Uncle Shylock was more interested in his pound of flesh than in winning the war might destroy the whole Good Neighbor structure...
...play itself. The dialogue, more like subdued rhetoric than human talk, often seems stilted and formal when spoken aloud. The play lacks sustained action and commits the dramatic crime of having almost everything exciting take place offstage. Finally, though the townspeople's heroic resolution is made clear, their flesh-&-blood sufferings...
Said the Chinese commander, crying his need for U.S. bombers: "We'll give flesh and blood. The Allies must give machines...
...started firing like mad, and damned if he didn't shoot one down. You know, it's a hellish job even to hold a machine gun. This Dutchman had held it by the barrel, which was almost red-hot. He held up his left hand. The flesh was burned off. He just smiled and said...
Lifted almost bodily from the Kaufmann-Hart stage success, "T.M.W.C.T.D." is just as funny as its flesh-and-blood counterpart. What it lacks in a few Hays-ened cracks, it makes up for in some deft characterizations that even the stage-play couldn't boast...