Word: micawberism
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If the words of that incurable optimist, Mr. Wilkins Micawber, rang in the ears of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, Mr. Morgenthau gave no sign. He had just floated the biggest peacetime loan in U.S. history-$1,504,425,000* to keep the Government going until Dec. 1. This...
The British Empire is foremost in the control of those resources without which the "have note" cannot wage long war. The British Empire can afford to wait, like Mr. Micawber, for "something to turn up" and this despite diplomatic humiliations not suffered since the American Revolution.
Even Mr. Micawber knew that a balanced budget spells content, an unbalanced one misery; but Mr. Micawber never kept a budget. Neither did the Hoe family. Mr. Hoe thought there was something nobly American in owning your own home, even if you had two mortgages on it and could not...
The story, told as a cutback from the recital of Mary Shelley herself, who tells it to her husband (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity...
David Copperfield (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). David Copperfield as a child is Freddie Bartholomew. As a young man, he is Frank Lawton. Rubbing together his malevolent hands, twitching his sly nose as Uriah Heep is Roland Young. Mr. Wickfield, the lawyer whom Uriah tries hard to cheat, is Lewis Stone. An...