Word: misfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanted Wings (Paramount] takes a trio of characters native to any military movie-the unreconstructed moneybags with a string of polo ponies (Ray Milland), the timid misfit (William Holden), the carefree clown (Wayne Morris)-and hurries them through the five-month training course at Randolph and Kelly Fields in Texas. Along with the studious documentation of a trainee's tribulations are funny and tense shots of the first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night...
...accidental volunteers, Abbott and Costello trundle off to a streamlined Army camp which, if believed, may start a flood of enlistments. Among a bevy of well-tailored hostesses are the Andrews Sisters, who swing their tunes at regular intervals, a standard ingenue (Jane Frazee), who helps militarize a misfit from the Social Register (Lee Bowman). But the principal shenanigans belong to Abbott and Costello, who are rumored to have evoked an imperial laugh from Charlie Chaplin at a private Hollywood screening. With lean Mr. Abbott feeding lines to porky Mr. Costello, they sometimes sound like a breath of Joe Miller...
Irked by the namby-pamby utterances of Cabinet members, particularly the Lord President of the Council, Earl Stanhope, Laborite Morrison flew into a fair frenzy, shouting: "The efforts of that ministerial misfit, Lord Stanhope, to turn the Norwegian withdrawal into something like a victory is typical irresponsibility based on the assumption that the British can't take it. Well, the British can take it, even if His Lordship...
...Sometimes, in order to avoid a misfit, the educational system tries to alter the size of the student's neck. Don't let them try this on you. You can always pick up a shirt, but you will never be able to get another neck...
...picture also was testimony to the influence the Court can exert on its own physiognomies. Two and a half years on the bench had molded ripsnorting Hugo LaFayette Black (right, front) into a male personification of Law. Only misfit face in the lot was that of Frank Murphy (right, rear), who looked as ethereally wretched as always...