Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy is also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire...
...wallowing in an aluminum surplus, was already planning to shut down many a West Coast plant. Last week the rumors got a solid grounding. The Office of Defense Transportation suggested to WPB that to effect "maximum" savings in transportation, some four-fifths of the West Coast's low price aluminum production would have to be stopped. The raw material, alumina, is another burden on the West's overloaded railroads...
...Called off his regular Cabinet meeting and press conferences. Reporters went away grumbling that the Chief Executive grows more & more inaccessible. (Presidential press conferences-there were 83 in 1933, 96 in 1940, 91 in 1941-dwindled to a new low...
...beer-befuddled old girls in a San Diego junk yard. Mistress of the junk pile is a tough-but-tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
These raffish antics lead to some funny moments but a flimsy evening. Playwright Kirkland's low-lifers are not rich and genuine creations who need only exist to amuse; they are hell-raisers who can score only in action. Since Suds boasts no plot, the gals keep weaving in circles, as much from author-trouble as from beer...