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...head lady turn the right-hand gent Once around, once around. Bend to your honey and left hand round, Oh doodar day. The lady in the center and seven hands around, The old red hen, the old red hen, The hen flies out and the crow hops in Join your hands and around again With your right foot up and your left foot down, Keep with the music and shake her down...
...Tunes of Glory, the screen version of James Kennaway's moody and affecting novel, Jock is both hero and villain of a garrison tragedy. The tragedy begins when Jock, as acting C.O., is superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...
...used to be, and Amory divertingly traces this plaint all the way back to the landing of the Mayflower. That sacred vessel, reports Amory. carried a nondescript list of lower-middle-class passengers, plus a sprinkling of servants; and not a man in the lot could sign himself "Gent...
...ironies of middle age hold no mysteries for him, either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim tries to do what seems to him the intelli gent thing, Gary's knowledge of people is used to truss him up like a sacrifice...
...myriad U.S. political pulse takers, no one was more confounded by last week's elections than that presumably savvy gent, the local party boss. Between widespread (and carefully calculated) ticket splitting and outright reversals of voting form, the 1960 election hit many a state political machine like an earthquake, shattering cherished preconceptions and not a few careers...