Word: humes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
Some of the situations are tried, true and a little tired. But the Rumanian siren, speaking sonorously in a participial dialect of her own, is a fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...
...Boss Is Wrong. In Ottawa, Hume Wright, new man in the Department of External Affairs, reported to his cousin, Under Secretary Hume Wrong...
...Other delegates: Agriculture Minister James Gardiner; Secretary of State Paul Martin; Hume Wrong, Under Secretary in the External Affairs Department; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom...
...names of Canadian delegates. Some would be representatives of the people: CCF Leader Major James Coldwell; Gordon Graydon, Tory leader in Parliament; Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External Affairs Department; men like Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, diplomatically adroit Canadian Ambassador...