Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week brought proof, if proof were needed, that the WAVES are a built-in, war & peace feature of the U.S. military establishment. The Navy approved for WAVE officers an all-out braid & fixings evening uniform. Designed by Main-bocher, it was intended to be "feminine and official at the same time." To the civilian eye, the outfit looked from the waist down like an 1890 Gibson girl; from the waist up, like a chorus girl in tails...
...main, however, Life With Mother, like Life With Father, is the broadly painted picture of a man and a marriage, the chronicle of a household and record of a class. Here again a rambunctious blusterer of Manhattan's horsecar era wages endless battle and suffers constant defeat, chiefly at the hands of a wife who flutters helplessly with cunning. Here again are growing boys and departing servants, the wall phones and other period touches, the breakfast tables and other permanent realities, of well-heeled bourgeois life...
...voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...
...ends--Don Cass and Alex Sergienko--as well as a bunch of fleet backfield pass-catchers in the starting lineup in the hope that his own aerial attack can offset Agannis and company. Lamar has further strengthened the Freshmen by adding several standouts of the "B" team to his main squad...
...main attacks has been on the subject of price controls, which Herter voted to abandon in 1946. Another, of course, flays the Republican's support of the Taft-Hartley Act. Still a third criticises his "reactionary" stand in regard to recent Social Security legislation. (Herter did not recommend extending benefits to 700,000 newspaper venders.) O'Brien also protests his support of the Mundt-Nixon bill, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from anti-trust suits, the Case anti-strike bill, and similar "anti-labor" bills...