Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current rumors that Liberty is sailing in rough waters, ex-Editor Oursler categorically echoes Macfadden Publications in calling them gross slanders...
...Bahama Passage" is a rough trip at best. We understand Stirling Hayden recently resigned from the movies. This picture explains why. It isn't just that he can't act; Hollywood is filled with handsome fellows who drag down nice salaries despite that minor disability. Hayden, in addition, has a voice like a fog-horn and--what's worse--is so pretty he detracts from the allure of Madeleine Carroll, who is growing kind of fat herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist...
...Foot in Heaven" is boosted above the mediocrity of its essential dullness by a pair of fine and sensitive performances by Frederick March and Martha Scott, and by a smooth directorial touch that irons out many of the rough spots, though too many are still left. Some of its scenes are superbly handled: the minister's effort to show his son the evil of motion pictures by accompanying him to a Wild West Nickelodeon, for example, is a brilliantly carried out piece of work. And there are a number of others equally well done...
...think it would be in any way sacrilegious to put a nice solid two-beat on tunes like "The Marine's Hymn," "The Caissons Go Rolling Along," and "Anchors Aweigh." In fact, the most patriotic music I ever heard was down at Nick's when a rough and tough little Dixicland outfit picked up "The Stars And Stripes Forever," and really gave it a workout. When they knocked out the final bars, I thought, Hell, how can we lose...
Already signing up candidates, the Navy will open the schools by May 1 and admit 2,500 men a month. Students will get a three-months' course of 1) physical toughening, including ditchdigging, jujitsu, rough-&-tumble fighting and learning to march 40 miles a day, 2) Naval history and customs, 3) military drill and seamanship. 4) communications and ordnance. Then the students will go on to nine months of flight training in Navy flying schools...