Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mencken, happy over the soldier-sailor fan mail that followed pocket-size reprinting of his autobiographical Happy Days and Heathen Days, exuberated with an old-fashioned Mencken slambang: "That is the difference between a soldier and a civilian. The letters you get from civilians come from those who don't like your books...
...crusty old sailor of 16 years' sea service and a veteran of the Battle of the Java Seas...
...permitted for a lowly sailor to point a moral, I should like to say to all who are in doubt that reform commences in one's own back yard and perfection comes from within. . . . And to those who expect miracles out of the war, there is another old saying: those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Even my eight-year-old son knows that fighting settles nothing, but is sometimes necessary in order to preserve one's self-respect...
...which Betty Grable made during the early stages of pregnancy. Cinemactress Grable plays the toast of a midland chapter of the U.S.O., becomes so amiable a Pin-Up Girl that half the war effort thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends of ostriches...
...film's only funny moment: hugely fat Eugene Pallette, a desk sailor, growling his regret he can't be out there fighting...