Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit, and has a large and loyal following in the Pacific...
...young people have a great American thirst to improve themselves. They are the nouveaux riches of culture, fond of words like "whence," "whereof" and "elucidate." A beautiful word like "osculation" serves Bella the double purpose of showing both learning and gentility...
...hesitate to beat its chest. This is the story of an ugly party named Bert Coonrod who shoots one of his companions on a deer hunt not quite for the sheer pleasure of shooting him. Mr. Parker could do without the sections of italicized rumination of which he seems fond, and if he were handling other material, we should expect him to solve his problem more satisfactorily than he does here. If melodrama is not given to solving problems, no more should it ruminate...
...Planned also was capacity to manufacture 20,000,000 rounds of .30-caliber (rifle and machine-gun) ammunition, 4,000,000 rounds of .50-caliber machine-gun ammunition every 24 hours. Now the goal is as much more as can be produced. Tough-talking Mr. Glancy is fond of somewhat fanciful translations of this vast economic effort into human effort: "These 3-in. (antiaircraft) guns shoot 25 rounds per minute, or 100 per battery. One round costs $22.37, or $134,220 per hour, or at $1 per hour the productive labor of 134,000 men. Mr. Ford, at Detroit...
...doesn't measure up to Rupe on ideas, has somewhat more technique, and uses it to full advantage, without going to the extreme of playing in a disorganized style which is best illustrated by the unfortunately popular work of Art Tatum (By the way--Tatum isn't particularly fond of his commercialism. You should hear him when he's just playing for his own kicks...