Word: molls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion. But Dreiser's youth in the gaslit underworld of Terre Haute, his work in the rowdy newspaper and music publishing houses of the turn of the century, and above all, the gaudy entrances & exits of his extraordinary sisters, make it a kind of nonfiction Tom Jones or Moll Flanders; it evokes a period of tragicomic misunderstandings, petty thefts, solemn philosophizing and dissipated mandolin players...
...southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial package he is trying to sell, and he cannot escape the relentless pursuit of a gun moll named Tory (Shelley Winters...
...Sara Monday, a kitchen maid who rises to country lady, only to sink at last to thievery and the lockup. "An ordinary country girl, neither pretty or plain" who takes a free & easy view of human foibles, including her own, she is obviously a 20th Century descendant of Moll Flanders. Like Moll, Sara discovers that when she lets her sentiment rule her shrewdness, she usually suffers...
...headed for the same kind of world we had before, even down to the gang lords . . . There is great talk of the good old days and prohibition; in other words, return to the old order . . . I tried to make all the characters old-fashioned (the gangster's moll is out of the '20s), to brand them as familiar figures, and to suggest they were ready to take over again...
Starting lineups: Wold: rf, Burton; lf, Phypers; c, Belcher; rg, Myer; lg. Davis. Matthews: rf, Parker; lf, Carroll; c, Moll; rg, Poole; lg, Goodrich...