Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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QUESTION: WHO IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-ATTLEE OR THE HAT...
...Agriculture Department to give away $516 million in nine months. Said Wallace: "You don't understand what we are doing." "Oh, yes I do," shot back slow-boiling Henry Morgenthau. "I understand it more every day. . . . The one that costs us more than anybody else is Wallace. My hat is off to him-he is getting away with murder...
...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...
...Wind-all four hours of it-was in its fourth Manhattan week (MGM cheerfully estimated that it would take in another $5 million to add to its already prodigious $32 million). For five midsummer weeks, the Palace advertised "a repertory of memorable motion pictures," including Love Affair (1939), Top Hat (1935), Gunga Din (1939), The Informer (1935), The Spanish Main (1945) and The Bells of St. Mary's. Elsewhere in Manhattan, moviegoers could see Charles Laughton in Henry the Eighth (1933), Fredric March in Les Miserables (1935), Bette Davis in Marked Woman (1937), Orson Welles in Citizen Kane...
Perhaps one of the greatest faults in "Acres and Pains" is Mr. Perelman's singularly bad choice of an illustrator. R. Osborn appears much more at home snarling at the backside of an Army Brass Hat than attempting to convey the tone of Perelman's brand of humor. The vicious, Stieg-like cartoons that made his fame in "War Is No Damned Good" have no place beside Perelman's cutting, though entireless harmless, wit. Some of the drawings are excellent, particularly a picture of two bloodthirsty children, but for the largest part they misfire and confuse the effect. These badly...