Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irene Dunne is "finished." Not that we go in for kicking ex-glamour girls on their way down. Miss Dunne's abortive attempt to play a native young thing from the sticks seeking adventure and romance in the Big City is Hollywood's blunder, not her own. Inescapably forty-ish, she is woefully miscast as the giddy paramour of the Brothers Duncan, acted by Robert Montgomery and Preston Foster...
...validity of Professor Burns' factual details concerning his Cambridge rivals is open to more than a small bit of doubt. The History Department, singly and collectively, denies any connection with Cape Cod and an unofficial poll reveals a Squam Lake-ish tendency rather than a Barnstable County...
Sued for Divorce. Amon Giles Carter, 60, fiercely hospitable, belligerently civic-minded Fort Worth publisher-promoter ("Dictator of Cowtown"); by Nenetta Burton Carter, 45-ish. She used to help welcome his hordes of guests at fabled "Shady Oaks," but asked for divorce on the grounds that her peripatetic husband's "absence from home and . . . failure to exhibit toward her ... affection and constant kindness" had "impaired her health and strength." Carter was divorced from his first wife...
...leavened in with even the most pathetic tragedy. No smiles lurk here; only lines and lines of dead or grim Canadiens. French pictures, and those of Jean Gabin in particular, are almost unique in their unaffected and moving treatment of sorrow. No sorrow lingers here. The acting is ham-ish, and the story laughably obvious...
...mild-mannered, chin-bearded little man who said those words in 1917 was Cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (rhymes with ma-mockers). A half-German Dutchman, Cartoonist Raemaekers "wrote" (his own word) charcoal drawings which stirred the world to fury against the brut ish Hun. He just didn't like Germans. When he arrived in Manhattan in 1917 to propagandize and work for Hearstpapers, Raemaekers said quietly: "It would be better - I know it is impossible, but still it would be better- if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...