Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only thing wrong with this film is an occasional lapse in photography. Some of the scenes are overexposed creating a "washed out" effect. This failing is rare, however, and the rest of the photography is excellent in creating mood for the central action...
Here is a rare and remarkable book. The reader can pick it up and read an expose of asylum condition in the London og 1699 or an account of the shooting of John Dillinger in 1934. He can find Alexander Hamilton defending the freedom of the press against the Crown in 1735 or a negro being railroaded in Alabama in 1941. He will find he newspapermen--the good ones--write stories that are as exciting and timely three hundred years after publication as they were when the ink was still...
...rulings were rare items: Assembly decisions that would stick. In the peace treaty with Italy, the Big Four had agreed in advance that they would accept U.N.'s recommendations...
...duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked, rare duck (20 minutes in a 500° oven) was fashionable with gourmets; some hunters were not above slicing off a few fillets and frying them...
...unpredictable. On one of her rare appearances without the company, she told Helpmann she would positively not make a speech at the supper given in her honor after a command performance in Copenhagen. After Helpmann had tactfully told the guests that "Miss Fonteyn is too moved to speak," she stood up and talked for six minutes. She loves to jitterbug. Helpmann says that after dancing with her in ballet for 14 years, he only really got to know her after jitterbugging with her until dawn one time last year...