Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumble of railroad trains and the feverish knock of a mad brain: this is the not exactly gleeful melody of "The Human Beast". Jean Gabin is the uncouth locomotive driver whose blood is polluted with the insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders...
John Steinbeck can write, and write wonderfully. But I am outraged when I trust so capable an artist to have him try to knock the intellectual sensitiveness out of me with a bang on the head-or the heart?-using his typewriter as instrument. I dare to say that Of Mice and Men is an illegitimate attack on the emotions, as are also parts of The Grapes of Wrath...
...happened to knock a person's hat off by a snowball, what would you do? -"If it were a grown person, I'd pick it up. If it were a child, I'd just say, 'I'm sorry...
Sweeping across the U. S. last week was the latest fad, successor to Knock-knock, Where's Elmer?. Handies, etc.: Anything too silly or salacious to say right out was being dressed up in pidgin English and put in the innocent mouth of old Kung Fu-tze (Confucius). Most of the people who parroted "Confucius say" did not know that one of China's most distinguished statesmen. Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kaishek, is a 75th-generation direct descendant of the great philosopher. Nor did they know the whereabouts...
...want to fight again?" "Yes sir," Arturo announced. "If you want tomorrow, I be there tomorrow." According to the script, he was then supposed to follow up with: "Next time, Champ, I knock you out." But smoky Joe, swinging clear from the script, beat Arturo to the punch. "Listen, Godoy," Joe said ominously, "I'm gonna give you another chance. And next time you'd better bring up your five big brothers...