Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help to lighten up the load he has to carry...
Friends of President Truman learned that he had read Crusade in Europe. The President confirmed General Ike's report of their conversation in which he had offered to help Ike get anything he wanted, including the presidency in 1948. But, said Harry Truman, Eisenhower forgot to complete the story. The President had also told him that he would not mind running for the vice-presidency, as Ike's mate...
...special effort will be made to help him in his extremity, nor will the U.S. pressure him to step down and make way for anyone else...
...Ferrer) poses as a superbly virile codger of 77 and passes out to the men folk a magical aphrodisiac (actually, small bread pellets). He tells lordly yarns of foreign travel and female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks out and he himself at last goes away, his rosy swindle continues to bear fruit...
...Young and Fair has a real sense of how thorny and bewildering life can be: an endless emotional seesaw, a constant moral crossroads. It understands, too, how snobbish institutions like Brook Valley help strangle decent impulses. Unfortunately it has not let bad enough alone, but has gone at ticklish human problems with the red hot pincers of melodrama, and has so loaded itself down with wiles and theatrics that it finally caves in. There is so much plot that there is no real plight; the words, like the deeds, smack at times of garish melodrama...