Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . The people of this country want only one new or different thing of their Government. That is truth-the kind of blunt, prompt, direct truth that shows that the Government has confidence in the people. The people will return that confidence in kind. There will be no strikes when the...
But Hollywood has tried to doctor it with Merle Oberon's legs and has left the religion leit-motive out of the picture by substituting something that is not religion as much as prudishness. The crusader of the book becomes the comic of the picture, and his effect on his...
We have had several Yanks at our house and all of them have been most charming and interesting. I always put in a good word for your boys and will not tolerate any ridiculous criticism. . . .
Norval (Eddie Bracken) is Trudy's unwanted steady, a poor stammering loon of a 4-F whose stupidity is excelled only by his utterly selfless devotion. As Trudy watches him gratefully writhing in her clutches, she begins for the first time to love him. His efforts to save her...
For the explanation of this change in WLB's tone, most observers did not look farther than to John L. Lewis' signal success in bypassing its jurisdiction. But the Court agreed with Gypsum, called WLB's about-face "fantastic" and "ridiculous," ruled that the case should go...