Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearing as 1944 political tempers grow warm, Wilson might be interpreted as straight Fourth Term propaganda. But as Producer Darryl Zanuck, a Republican, pointed out last December, it might just as easily have proved helpful to Wendell Willkie, board chairman of 20th Century-Fox, whose One World Zanuck will produce if Wilson clicks. And Wilson is so patently sincere that even its stoutest ideological opponents may well wish Darryl Zanuck luck when he grimly announces that if Wilson flops: "I'll never again make a picture without Betty Grable...
...fought for two years in the Polish Army, for two years in the German. He is also probably the only prisoner taken in Normandy who ended up as a privileged guest. When paratroopers of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division captured Ziggy, their close-cropped heads were beginning to grow shaggy after three weeks in the front line. Almost the only technicians who had not jumped with the paratroopers were barbers: that was where Ziggy, who had been a barber back in Warsaw, came in. He borrowed a pair of shears and went to work...
Concluded G.B.S.: "The Berlin child did not grow up at all or grew up a nervous wreck or a disciplinarian terrorist. The Connemara child grew up humane and healthy but at best a noble savage. The problem is how to produce adults who are both humane and cultivated. Clearly they must have not only the Berlin discipline but the Connemara massage...
Liberal, Tory and C.C.F. alike went hammer & tongs after Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley, who has insisted that M.P.s must pay full income taxes on their $4,000 salaries, refused them exemption for living expenses in Ottawa. Cried Liberal Arthur Roebuck: "Members . . . grow poor in the service of the public." Said Tory Richard Burpee Hanson: "There is no other class in Canada which is making sacrifice of time and of ability and of capability and of money comparable to the sacrifices made by members of this Canadian House of Commons...
Cinemaudacities. As the year 1943 unwinds, these characters change and grow as they seldom get time to do in films. Miss Colbert greys perceptibly and learns to be a welder. An immigrant welder (Alia Nazimova) tells her that she embodies her own dearest dreams of America, Startling cinemaudacity: months after her husband is reported missing, Welder Colbert toys with the idea of accepting Mr. Gotten at last. Earlier Gotten seriously considers trying to seduce...