Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...
...most bodacious example in the U.S. of the plushy Victorian architecture variously known as jigsaw, gingerbread or General Grant, is the mammoth, decaying, 917-room United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.* Two years ago, the old "States" foundered in white-elephantine failure, closed its doors forever. Last week the entire furnishings of this ornament of an age went on the auction block. It was a great day for the fanciers...
News of this total warfare has not been kept from the U.S. people. But it has reached them in such isolated and shapeless gobbets, and it has been so blurred by emotionally colored dispatches from Free China, that only the jigsaw pieces have been visible, and not their whole picture. That picture indicates that the Japanese are more successful than is generally thought...
...pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of U.S. wartime living...
...proof). Bootleg "freedom" stations leap from one frequency to another, when, where and how they please. They often spend a 15-minute news period repeating four sentences over & over again, confident that if listeners catch an occasional word they will be able to piece the message together like a jigsaw puzzle...