Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Hollywood's multitudinous attempts at originality, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" stands out as one of the few pictures that actually is more than a stodgy re-hash of the staple boy-meets-girl situation. Fairly reeking with novelty, "H.C.M.J." whistles along with never a dull moment...
...down in an all-House poll last spring. But student employment in the kitchens has no drawback of social stigma, and there seems to be no logical reason why it would not be better for a House member to be earning board in his own House than in a hash-joint on the Square. This is particularly true since Houses are going to have trouble getting kitchen help this year, anyhow...
...often labeled arbitrary, faddish, "plot-shy," and he made no secret of his liking for Chekhovian sketches and vignettes with a narrative content approaching zero. One of the stories in this collection-by Arthur Kober, dialectician laureate of The Bronx-is just a monologue by an offensively smug hash-house proprietor. Many are written in the fashionable (since Hemingway) stark-simple style which, slightly overdone, approximates baby talk. Thus John Fante (A Nun No More): "My mother cried and cried night and day. They couldn't stop her. . . . Finally Grandma Toscana called the priest. . . . Right away she felt better...
Jimmy Roosevelt threw Paulette Goddard and the entire Heidt Brigade into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...
...forth would add to the confusion. A new system of ventilation would have to be installed over the food counters lest the dining room smell like the kitchen. Members might well be unwilling to ask their guests to come to the House for a meal and sling their own hash. Last but not least is the argument that a self service system would mean the abrupt dismissal of almost all the maids...