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...them get up and walk, but many just lie there. Hope's view of it, after running a tank into the colonel's car: "Me trying to be a corporal! I'll be lucky if they don't try to take away my citizenship." Grade-A Hopeism, after the tank accident: "Terribly sorry about...
About a year and a half ago Ulsterman Louis MacNeice, who has written an Irish lion's share of grade-A contemporary English verse, came to the U.S. to earn a quiet living and see what he could...
...usual line of business was a case brought to the Bureau recently involving a serving maid and a five dollar bottle of whiskey. The girl worked for a family in Newton. Around Christmas time she asked her employer for a bottle of grade-A whiskey to send to her folks for a present...
...grade-A. Author and cast took the cut and dried characters and unstocked them with a vengence. Siren Bennett gives out more laughs than heat-waves. Hero John Hubbard is slightly half-witted. Sleuth-reporter Menjou finds no clues, "reconstructed the crime" only once, and terrified gangland with a barrage of firecrackers. The whole picture is an uproarious burlesque on all murder-newsroom sex quickies past, present, and future...
Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment, General Manpower, Inc. But Orestes ran his racket with a difference: he rented out his customers-as strikebreakers, loggers, steelworkers, etc. These "units" of General Manpower not only drew high wages but owned a share in the business. Worked intensively but never long, they were guaranteed intermediate periods of "reconditioning" at the company...