Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before election day it rained 3.07 inches in Crosby, North Dakota. Next day rain still fell. In many a western county, where North Dakota farmers were isolated by impassable mud, no vote was cast. This was the best possible weather for Gerald P. Nye, the slickest isolationist in the U.S. Senate...
...have yet to hear any two of them reach an agreement, and I have listened to them screech at each other all the way across the Pacific. The C.O. is one of 'em but his rank doesn't help him when the majestic question of proper mud consistency arises...
...Attack is mawkishly "American," but most of it is as direct and unaffected as most of the shots. There are clearly some fine anonymous camera and sound men in the Signal Corps. The clanging iron gangways, the rattle of unloading, the grunt and nutter of motors struggling in the mud add much to 'Attack's power. And at the film's end the almost inaudible mutter of burial prayers gives a simple validity to the closing shot (an open grave) and to the line: "One day of American living-bought, and paid...
...worked his way up from New Deal errand boy to New Deal advance man, fought four rivals for his seat in the U.S. Senate. Against Pepper the opposition threw all the New Deal symbols which Southerners like least: bureaucracy, OPA bungling, labor and Negro "coddling." ("Drastically below-the-belt mud-slinging!" cried Pepper...
...gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name so as to weaken the force of his ideology? . . . Trotskyites...