Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typists share a common plague--scotch-taped, stapled, and unreadable manuscripts. But student patronage would seem to prove that they can read the unreadable and beat the deadlines...
...those Scotch-Irish who want no Catholic rule move to the U.S., in exchange for a like number of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick who want to extend Dublin's beneficent domain and presumably would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys...
...time the bartender had come up with a couple of scotch-and-sodas, La Voodoo herself arrived. A sultry brunette wearing a very off-one-shoulder black dress and a huge black hat, she managed to convey to the eye what the perfume she was wearing was supposed to tell the nose. Her manager, a light blond, told us that in her less jungle-like moments La Voodoo was known as Stella Danfray. They were just in from Hollywood where DcMille had given her a screen test. And how did La Voodoo like Hollywood? "Ect is so complex, so hectic...
...Came to Dinner. In Denver, thieves broke into Barbara Klo-berdans' apartment, took $30 cash, $49 worth of clothes, ate some potato salad, drank some Scotch, found varnish and brush in the kitchen cabinet and touched up the door they had splintered...
What lifts Tight Little Island above its own high mark of insular drollery, and turns its chuckles into laughs, is its mastery of the visual gag. The picture moves quietly but surely until the islanders make a rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to hide the loot from customs raiders and a chase to rescue the biggest cache of whisky, the camera goes on an inspired spree. For lightness, comic movement and inventive detail, these sequences are worthy of Rene Clair...