Word: outwitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedian of the decade, if he doesn't outwit himself out of radio, is, of course, Henry Morgan...
...Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
...explaining it. Its action includes some of the most lucid pictures ever filmed of infantrymen at work. The actors, many of them combat veterans, perform their jobs with competence and beautiful attention to detail. One sequence, in which two soldiers, covering and acting as decoys for each other, outwit three German snipers in a church belfry, is as satisfying as a cleanly executed triple play...
...Secretary Goddard hires out her boss and herself as husband & wife, butler & cook, to browbeaten, glad-eyed Ira Cromwell (Roland Young), who is trying to make a home for his baritone wife (Anne Revere), a major in the PLOPS.* Later the pair take servant jobs with New Dealer Ritchie, outwit a sneering rival toymaker, cop the contract and each other...
...claims that no new jokes have been sent in. He is not surprised. He and his colleagues spend most of their time modernizing old wheezes. Last week Laurie was at work on the oldest of all. He had the first line : "Who was that lady I seen you OUTWIT last night...