Word: herring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although one of Hollywood's almost unbearably beautiful young males, Victor Mature, plays the Dresser role, he is generally bearable. Whenever he gets coy, out of character and into fatuity, Director Irving Cummings distracts attention from him with a mighty pretty red herring: beauteous Rita Hayworth, who, in Technicolor, singing and dancing her way through eight melodies, is enough to raise hair on the boys in baldhead...
...Carroll, who can act when she has to, makes a good thing out of a role which could have been adequately routine. Percy the penguin wins the pantomime honors hands down. His best scene: waddling down a Pullman aisle in his striped pajamas and matching nightcap, hot after a herring...
...slothful "people" responsible for Pearl Harbor, General Johnson? That sounds suspiciously like a cheap bit of red herring pulling to sidestep blame for your uniformed colleagues. "Worldlywise experts" indeed...
...Bronx, the Navy notified Louise Clifton of her husband's death. She went to bed sobbing. Then a good German neighbor (a Mrs. Goering) advised her to eat a herring on New Year's Eve, make a wish. Louise did. At midnight a messenger boy knocked at her door. It was all a mistake: Coxswain Clarence Calvin Clifton is still alive...
...event, we know, and the anonymous "Executive Council" of the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention must now know that their red herring was useless-it was too transparent. John Desmond Glover...