Word: naturedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly-giving humor and bounce to a big routine musical (TIME...
Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly-giving humor and high spirits to a big routine musical (TIME...
...Doin' What Comes Natur'lly went through extensive alterations. . . . The line 'You don't have to go to a private school not to turn up your bustle to a stubborn mule' became 'Not to pick up a penny from a stubborn mule.' . . . Another verse about Grandpa Bill and his new wife. 'There he is at 93, doin' what comes natur'lly' . . . was thrown out and 'Uncle Ben, who stole chickens just as naturally as he breathed,' was substituted...
...questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies. I learned that . . . the Atom Bomb was a development of German science, that Hitler was dead, that given four months Germany could have won, that freedom of speech was a sickness enjoyed by democracies and not compatible to German Natur...
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...