Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where TWA officials were biting their nails. So he nonchalantly flew 200 miles out to sea in his land plane to make...
...glittering musical has the air of a department store Christmas tree, wreathed with looping streamers of Cole Porter music and twinkling patches of young dancing. Proper in proportion and dazzle are its two large production packages: 1) Rolling Home sung by Ted (James Stewart), Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers) and Mush (Buddy Ebsen) with a chorus of sailors; 2) Swingin' the Jinx Away, the monumental finale, sung by everybody on top of the tree...
...spotted in 14 supremely efficient and separate styles of dancing is Nora (Eleanor Powell), a girl who lives in the Lonely Hearts Club and learns to love a boy. Authors Jack McGowan & Sid Silvers were not trying to be original even when they made the ship that brings Ted, Mush & Gunny home a submarine instead of the usual dreadnought. Everybody seems satisfied with the plot as they pair off in the Lonely Hearts Club with Hey, Babe, Hey! a novelty song and dance that is the season's high for cinemusical contagion. Frances Langford is a good dancer...
Many voters, moved by sentiment and not too insistent upon concrete results, pour forth mush on the subject of Cordell Hull and the New Deal foreign policy. Those who see in Mr. Hull a second John Quincy Adams should recall the smashup of the London Economic Conference as well as the financial spoliation of China, which are more typical of New Deal measures than most. They should also recall that the trend toward "big brotherhood" in Latin America began under a Republican administration while Roosevelt was still a scheming, incapable Governor of New York...
Said he sold his Alaska stories to all wide-awake dailies, sent money to wife and baby in Alaska. Got two bits from Managing Editor Moore for a sandwich but nothing for his promised revelations about Matanuska Valley potatoes, so big and shiny, but "really just like mush...