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Whoop for War. Young Calhoun was something of a prig. When" his admiring brothers persuaded him to give up farming and sent him to college at 20, he worked as hard at Yale as if he were plowing a rocky patch of land. To the frequent ridicule of his fellow students, he would reply that he studied hard "in order that he might acquit himself creditably when he should become a member of Congress...
...brilliant uniform, free-&-easy in old country clothes, Desmond's "animal eyes" made him a scary lover, but he had a wonderfully gentle way with children. To hear him in church, intoning the responses in a pious voice, was enough to convince you that he was a sanctimonious prig-until you saw him gay & dashing in a nightclub. The trusted confidant of his general, Desmond was one of the most promising officers in the army. When he asked her to marry him, in a clumsy, boyish way, Harriet's heart was touched; she gladly accepted...
Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...
...Crosbee, name-checker and soup-server, remarked that the new ruling, though possibly it cut down the number of applications for dates, didn't really affect her much personally. "Why should I care," she cooed, "there are enough passes being made around here and then some. I'm no prig...
...into the rafters. Ruth Homond, a winsome lass when she removes her horn-rimmed glasses--and you know she will--is a well-bred Pegeen Mike to the predatory "playboy," suffering only the occupational disease of being adequate. William Mendrek is a figure of bumptious incompetence as the casual prig who, in a poor imitation of a young English squire, half-heartedly tries for and loses the girl. This summation leaves three leftovers: a detective and two maids. The former has, if nothing more, an almost valid English accent; the younger of the latter two proves that it doesn...