Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mooching Irish father (Alan Hale) whose philosophy is: "I was never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...
...passing the puck around in Yale territory for a while, Noone saw fit to let one fly at the Bulldog goaler, Sophomore Card Meyer, who had started in place of Bud Kleckhefer, out with a broken bone in his face. Meyer blocked the shot, but McGrath pounced on the rebound for the initial Crimson tally...
...bridges, a lawyer, electricians, signal crew, bridge and section-gang men. The waiting section hands seized clawbars, heaved at the rails. Finally the track was taken up and Dottie flirted triumphantly through into the Hudson. At Bear Mountain they went ashore and had sodas to celebrate. The silent gang rebound the tracks, replaced fishplates, spikes, stood by to rip them up again when Dottie returned. Pretty soon she did. Up came the rails, up the creek chugged Dottie...
Regarding the letter about "Rubber Rebound" in TIME, Nov. 25, the writer is highly misinformed in inferring that the Brazilian newspaper O Globo is Nazi-controlled. Of Rio's 22 newspapers, not more than three are controlled by the Germans; the rest are either neutral or pro-Ally. Herbert Moses, the highly respected president of the Brazilian Press Association, and treasurer-director of O Globo, is the son of an American mother and is a stanch friend of England and the U. S. His newspaper reflects this attitude...
...wouldn't? But it is a bit more difficult to muster up any enthusiasm for the picture itself. The story revolves about the eternal "eternal triangle" which is not handled with enough verve to justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love, is jilted, marries on the rebound, and unfortunately finds herself still in love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others...