Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casting suave Cary Grant, who is accustomed to taming his women by his eyebrows and delicate hands, in the part of an illiterate, rough, George Raft type, to play opposite a woman with no more polish than Lorraine Day is the biggest mistake of the picture, unless it was the initial decision to produce the movie. It just goes to prove that you can't toss a good comedian like Cary Grant into any rickety old vehicle and trust him to make it go. Lorraine Day is still the sweet-simple young things she was in the Kildare serials...
...analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...
Paul Hoffman is also an extremely successful businessman. He is a recognized power, well beyond the size of his company, in the rough & tumble automobile industry. What is more remarkable, he got there as a salesman, not a production...
Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, ex-Ziegfeld beauty who once hit headlines by hitting Primo Camera on the chin at a Paris nightclub, charged her wealthy (automobiles) husband with assault. Major Horace E. Dodge Jr. had been "very rough," she said. Served with a summons in a suit for separation (she wants $60,000 a year alimony), he had stopped in at her Park Avenue apartment, ripped a diamond ring off her finger, yanked a diamond pin from her waist, nearly got a diamond necklace-but that dropped down the front of her dress. She dropped the assault charge after...
...prison gates opened to admit prisoners returning from work. "Their sentry followed. . . . Four hands were stretched towards me behind my comrades: Marquet held my brief case; Finot held a wallet with my money and papers in it. Moineau and David held nothing but their fingers. . . . They felt rough, warm and kind. At this moment the ball hit the ground, two of the players slipped and fell, and Duclos ran towards Desprez with his fists raised . . . knocked him down brutally." The guards rushed up to intervene. Shedding his prison overcoat, Hélion "shot out" of the gate...