Word: laudamus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undertone was sober and reflective. New York's tabloid Daily News caught the feeling: instead of an editorial for V-E day it printed the Te Deum Laudamus. Most of the advertisements in Manhattan's press were expressions of thanksgiving. The churches were crowded early...
Wriggling through all this dense tedium-laudamus, like a Pekingese lost in a shopping rush, is a story. George Raft, a hoofer, marries Vera Zorina, a dancer. But George can think of nothing but camp shows and Vera can think of nothing except their impending baby (about which she is too miffed to tell him), so they part. Before they can make it up Raft dies, a hero, in the Pacific. His widow becomes the pride...