Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second feature "stars" the Dead Fnd Kids. They and Mickey Rooney have made audiences despair of American youth for a number of years new. Rooney redeemed himself in his last picture, "Babes in Arms." In "On Dress Parade" however, the Kids are even more gorge raising than usual...
...past and future, grows years older with every few months' gap between meetings. Through drawings and portraits of her the artist attains fame & fortune; he loses her, at last, to the great New England Hurricane. Readers who can willingly succumb to Robert Nathan's stealthy, gifted, perfumed-Mickey Finn prose will be rewarded with chills from the time-tricks, gently idealized sexual suspense, occasionally a gentle, specialized Nathan...
...that householders' wells will not be contaminated by droppings. Cambridge isn't the only town with ridiculous, unenforceable laws. But that isn't much of an excuse for deliberately writing such laws into the books. To do so means to mock the whole system of rule by law. Perhaps Mickey knew that his little brain-child was a bastard, that it would be duly declared unconstitutional after blocking up the proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced. As a matter of fact, he didn't even provide for its enforcement in his law. Maybe...
...other hand, maybe Mickey was honestly trying to provide some barn-door proof of the far-and-wide presence of Communism, so that the common man could see and beware accordingly. It is well known around Kerry Corner that the guiding drive in his life--next to his pride in his dozen-odd strapping children and in his prosperous trucking business--is a very real and sincere, if slightly confused, hatred of Communism. The resolution is certainly couched in no niggardly terms, and Mickey very probably meant it when he said, "WHEREAS: Communism is the world's greatest curse today...
There isn't a great, deal that can be said for the twelve other solous who gave their considered approval and dragged after Mickey like the tail after a kite. One can laugh at Mickey because he has his points, but in the face of the rest one can only wilt and wonder. Professor Chafee over at the Law School summed up the whole case when he stated: "This is the best argument offered thus far for Plan...