Word: goos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again to his almost-forgotten purpose. He turned over a leaf, promised Neloa to be "a good citizen, strong and solid, like a pile of beef. I'll be going to church soon. I'll be rocking my child on my knee and saying dada and goo-goo and oo-ittle-wubbity-wart. Virtues will be sticking out of me like candles out of a birthday cake. Squeeze me and I'll break into prayer. Kick me and I'll recite the Sermon on the Mount...
...Government ran goo million dollars into the red in fiscal 1931. When April came this year it was 1,885 new millions in the red for fiscal 1932. When April went it was 448 more new millions behind (mostly Reconstruction Finance loans). All these millions-2,333 of them and more to come before June 30-will be lumped with the Public Debt for future generations...
...entertainment should suffer from sloppy photography (e.g. the shot of Swanson drying herself in a towel robe after a shower, in which the spectator is allowed to discover that she has been taking a shower in a brassiere). Too free play has been given to the famed Swansonian mannerisms, goo goo eyeing and curling her upper lip to show off her teeth. Best shot: the fadeout, with Miss Swanson dreaming blissfully in the arms of a ship's officer whom she has mistaken for her fianc...
Houses crumpled like paper. Police and firemen rushed to the scene; 25 were snuffed out when a second landslide crashed down on them. By morning 60 deaths were recorded, near the bottom of the moving mountain was a hole goo ft. deep, 180 ft. wide, big enough to swallow a skyscraper...
Heads Up (Paramount). Heads Up has much glitter and is well put together; the main reason for its dullness is that the central role is serious. This role is played with his usual professional boyishness by goo-goo-eyed Charles ("Buddy") Rogers...