Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swell Guy (Mark Hellinger; Universal-International) is a full-length portrait of a slob (Sonny Tufts). He is a famed, chaotically incompetent war correspondent who can fool practically everybody in the postwar world except his fellow reporters, his mother and, in rare, lucid moments, himself...
...possible explanation for the hesitancy arises from some poorly times and ill-advised remarks by the Association's Director, Dr. Guy Snavely. The day before the meeting opened, Dr. Snavely relieved himself of the dictum that "if we have Federal aid we must have Federal domination." To that deathless relic of States' rights, he added a classic of Algeriana: "Anyone with ambition enough can go to college." With its chief executive indelibly on record, the Association faced the unhappy dilemma either of repudiating its spokesman or failing to express its own majority opinion on a vital issue. The educators choose...
When this dark young guy gave her the long look in a New York subway car, something happened to blonde, empty-headed Pearl Lusk. Here was Mr. Excitement in person-sharp, smiling, hefty; a lonesome Latin with a George Raft face, and a slow burn in his eye. The minute 19-year-old Pearl saw him, she began to feel pleasantly jittery...
...long. ... I didn't agree with many of the things he did in his last years. He seemed to feel that in wartime there's a place for a newspaper that is the voice of the disgruntled-and he became that voice. But he was a great guy...
Caniff plotted his new characters as carefully as any fiction writer. "The guy, now, had to have a name that would stick," Caniff explained. "It had to be three syllables, Dead-eye-Dick, or John-Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults...