Word: shylocking
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...Merchant of Venice?" Said Adams, "Antonio." Said a gleeful Golenpaul: "I thought you'd say Shylock." Retorted a surprised Adams: "Is that what you want...
...cause of hemisphere' solidarity- Mexico, more than any other Latin American country, has been fronting for the U.S-it was indeed fine to have what Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the so-called petroleum question" out of the way. The faintest suggestion that Uncle Shylock was more interested in his pound of flesh than in winning the war might destroy the whole Good Neighbor structure...
...when he impersonates the envoy and various Gestapo chiefs. Miss Lombard plays with consummate skill, warmth and humor. One forgets this is her last role, so compelling and captivating is her performance. The supporting cast is tops, particularly Felix Bressart, as a frustrated spear carrier, who dreams of playing Shylock; and Tom Dugan who turns in a wonderfully ludicrous impersonation of Hitler...
Clearly stated is the South American fear that German imperialism will be escaped only to be replaced by a Good Neighbor growing his old Uncle Shylock whiskers. Frankin Roosevelt is liked, but Theodore is not forgotten. Herring condemns the burgeoning official propaganda agencies which are making Good Neighborliness as obnoxious as a radio commercial plug, and he urges more movies like "The Great Dictator" and "The Mortal Storm" along with wider distribution of American magazines translated into southern tongues. He also condemns the proponents of the American Century, whose ill-concealed imperialism turns against us the very people we most...
That oath, sworn in a memorv of sac rifice and bloodshed, gradually soured into a disgusted resolve. The Allies didn't pay their war debts, Uncle Sam became Uncle Shylock, the country heard that the holy crusade had been waged to make good J. P. Morgan's loans, that Our Buddies were the pawns of the munitions-makers, that the Road to War was paved with baloney; the blood had been shed not by heroes, but by suckers...