Word: poses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found our fears gravely confirmed when, emerging from the subway the other day, we chanced to overhear two young ladies who were quite absorbed in the blue-clocked splendor of a West Pointer sweeping by. "Gee," we heard one of them question, "d'ya s'pose he's Australian...
This crusade business is slowly geting under my skin. Every time we Americans do anything, we feel that we must pose as knights in white armor bringing light to the darkness of the rest of the world. In the last war Wilson was the guardian angel of the great myth. In this war Henry Luce has cast Roosevelt as the champion of the liberal democratic ideal leading the world into an American Century. The strange thing about this simon pure attitude towards America, is that it is embraced by isolationists as freely as interventionists. Ever since Henry James we have...
...other end of the bill, "Married Bachelor," is a B picture which pulled itself up to an A--in time to get the whole show into Group 1. Without any really startling touches this story of the happily married bookie, forced by "circumstances" to pose as the author of that unbelievable best-seller, "A Bachelor Looks at Marriage," proves sound enough in all departments to provide an amusing introduction for the thrills to follow. While the hardly insignificant talent and figure of Ruth Hussey make the picture something more than time filler...
...terrific headache. You can't just pick up 150,000 persons and put them in a concentration camp. It would disrupt the life of the Islands and pose a bigger problem than any we are prepared to handle at the moment...
Said General Wood with undeniable truth: "Each step thus far taken in the international situation has been upon the solemn assurance that it was for the pur pose of preserving peace. Actually, we have been led to the brink of a devastating war. . . . This subterfuge must end. We must now squarely face the real issue, war or peace...