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...greeting is chilly, like Captain to gob...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Graduate's Plight | 4/15/1953 | See Source »

...Religious Education at Washington's Catholic University of America), but he served five years as a naval chaplain in World War II, holds a captaincy in the Naval Reserve, and confesses to being "the most biased man in the world about the U.S. Navy. . . To me 'gob' means God's Own Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Service Sermons | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...your seenes in Raly during the war. Throw in a big gob of partisans some mean-looking German soldiery, sprinkle liberally with social significance, squalling infants, breast women, and peasants and you might have "Paisan" or "Open City." But in this case you have "Outery," and you have a very fine motion picture...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...mother who plans a concert pianist's career for her son, Tony. Miraculous point of the picture is the maintenance of Miss Hunt's girlish appearance throughout Tony's growth to manhood. Only when dewy-eyed Miss Hunt hears Tony break from Bach into jazz does a great gob of cornstarch fall on her hair and remain from that day forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/3/1947 | See Source »

Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 8/1/1947 | See Source »

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