Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story surrounds the Senator's intimate diary, which has been stolen and is likely to involve the politicians in a mess of trouble if the wrong people get hold of it. There is much too much standard B-picture intrigue about the diary, and it is hard to work up a healthy interest in either the story or the Senator. You just sit around and wait for another irrelevant gag, and this soon becomes a tiresome business in spite of the charming pretences of Ella Raines and Arleen Whelan. There is no doubt that election politics is a fine field...
...Added Ladle. "For a promised piece of bread, for an added ladle of soup, some poor souls became the valets of the Germans . . . swept out their mess halls, polished their boots, cleaned their bicycles. . . ." And then there were the prisoners who obeyed Vichy orders to collaborate, and were given preferential treatment. For them Ambrière reserves his deepest scorn, remembering how, when they crossed the Rhine on the return trip to France, "with languid fingers they removed the Fascist symbol they had been wearing since 1941 and pinned the cross of Lorraine in its place...
...prizefighting ring which served as a speaker's platform, Leon Gingembre said: "This super-fiscality will kill our economy by braking production. ... If you can't pay your taxes, send your tax forms back to your deputy and ask him to get you out of the mess he got you into...
There was but one exception to the giant murmur of discontent that rose over the general mess on the Cantabridgian streets. That was Texan Freshman whose only other experience with snow was through a family narcotics ring. Sliding down an ice pile behind Widener, he announced he loved it knee deep. He was the only one, but the only handicap of this editorial is that we can't blame anyone either for this or for '88. The historical method may be the best to tackle the problem...
...high-flavored literary and artistic dishes, sandwiched bright new writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos and E. E. Cummings between the paintings of Matisse, Segonzac, Pascin, Laurencin, and seasoned the whole with Covarrubias caricatures and Steichen photographs. At 71, after observing that "it would make a frightful mess if I died and left all this stuff for other people to take care of," Connoisseur Crowninshield sold his art collection...