Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter, played by Teresa Wright, with whom he falls in love. All this adds up to considerable difficulty, and it takes Goldwyn & Co. exactly 163 minutes of screen time to wind the show up happily...
...Bowery knew better than that. There was a long, sullen silence. Then someone said: "Scram, jerk...
...surface, at least, Andrew Russell ("Drew") Pearson and Robert Sharon ("Bob") Allen were a team again. A few months ago the two Merry-Go-Roundmen were not speaking, but last week they joined to ask FCC to jerk a radio license from Hearst and give it to them. Neither would discuss their old feud or their new venture. Said redheaded, cavalry-cussing Colonel Allen: "Allen's relations with Pearson are strictly Allen's business . . . and he won't talk...
...Ivanissevich was smiling and the President was smiling, and they were both saying what fine countries the other represented. It was hard to remember that only a few months ago the State Department was spreading the idea that Argentina's President Juan Peron was nothing but a fascist jerk...
...look at Captain Wayne and-wham! Here's the real-life double of her own fictional hero. She yearns to tell him who she is and offer him the lead in the projected film. But the outspoken Captain has read her novel, thinks her hero is a thoroughgoing jerk...