Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love and $200. It is not easy for Canadian servicemen, particularly those in the ranks, to marry overseas. They must first save $200 (average base pay: $57 a month). They must also get permission from their C.O.s, then let love's ardors cool for several weeks...
...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...
Willie in his roguish way Tipped Grandpa on the fire one day. Mother said "My dear that's cruel! But of course it does save fuel...
...hear of our trip to Montreal, the highlights of the aforementioned will now be reviewed in a finale befitting its grandeur, finally she declared, with some emphasizing that if we wanted to be coy it was all right with her and she would save us both time by directing herself and party to our room...
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 good name, fantastically inept and deeply touching, would melt much colder hearts than hers. At the picture's end Norval, through no doing of his own, is at once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still...