Word: screwier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sends in loco parentis. She needs all her courage when it deposits her among his screwy family. Auntie is horoscopic, Cousin Barbara is spoiled, Cousin Walter just asks apprehensively: "Does she still sing?" Bulb-eyed, bulgy Uncle Jim (Eugene Pallette, who has had experience as father of an even screwier family in My Man Godfrey) manages to be out when his family is home, home when they are out. Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings...
...delay was occasioned by the death of an obscure 63-year-old brother of the Dictator, who "had to attend the funeral." Suspecting that something even screwier than what had been arranged was now afoot, friends of the Young Marshal went about swearing that he was ''not being treated fairly," and in Nanking several quarreling schools of thought about the kidnapping grew...
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