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...ethereal unlikelihood of Band of Angels is heightened by its lunar dialogue. A pixilated slave woman shrills: "Sodjahs acomin' down fum de Nohf, sodjahs atotin' freedumb, adrippin' it lahk sweyet on a hot day!'' She also gives Yvonne some hot-day advice on how to enslave Gable: "Tease him lahk a cayetfish aswimmin' 'roun' a wuhm! Yukky-yuk! Wait'll he git itchy...
According to Fleming, the "mixture of esteem and spite" Hitler had for the British gave him no clue as to what they would do. When he might have tried to lull them into defeatism, he chose instead to try to scare them with a policy of "fee-fi-fo-fum." This "minatory tone" was a bad mistake. "The menace of invasion was at once a tonic and a drug," writes Fleming. "It braced the islanders to exertions whose necessity seemed beyond question, and it expunged the memories of the disasters they had suffered." The British began to stir themselves...
...tried to hold prices with OPA, hoping production would pull the country out of its hole. Congress axed OPA and, despite the President's pleas, was all set to drive a stake through its heart and bury it at a cross roads (see below). Harry Truman's fum bling efforts to control the economy had failed; now the country, nerves on edge, faced the prospects of a free economy...
Hannen Swaffer, peninsula-nosed old bonebag who rattled out such fee-faw-fum dramatic criticism that London's Laborite Daily Herald turned him loose on the Tories, arrived in Manhattan with his hair in its usual bun, his tongue as tart as ever. Two new Swafferisms: 1) on Winston Churchill-"[His] opposition . . . has been childishly futile"; 2) on Britain's No. 1 Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, who attends to Methodism no less than moneybags-"I don't think there is any Methodism in his madness...
...commissioners found the old state-issued textbooks crammed with Fascist fee-fo-fum...