Word: meself
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petty crime; yet his meaning, as an embattled young man of his century, has been rather clarified than muddied in the movie. He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand goods shop, fending off the devotions of a gently Bohemian cellist (Jane Wyatt) and, rather against his will, falling harder & harder...
...Union frowned on sectional representation because it already had 16 members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...