Word: sirloin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood (Eugene Pallette, Louise Beavers) and Broadway (Sam Levene, Millard Mitchell). Carefully solemn Henry Fonda has the dignity of a wax grape of wrath among satiated little foxes. Pretty Lucille Ball, who was born for the parts Ginger Rogers sweats over, tackles her "emotional" role as if it were sirloin and she didn't care who was looking. There is also a headwaiter played by sinister, saturnine Hans Conried. He packs so much cold, superb style into his half minute that he makes everybody else's fun look forced...
...against it. He was against tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, corsets, cocoa, ginger ale, sirloin steak, vaccination, capital punishment, Tammany Hall and artificially flavored lollipops. He could spot a cocoa drinker at 20 paces by the "yellow eyes and degenerate skin." Once he weaned a Sing Sing death-house prisoner from tobacco, several days before execution. During World War I he wired President Wilson that coffee would prevent U.S. soldiers from shooting straight, and ought to be forbidden them...
...whenever the student sits down for a meal in his own House. If he has a friend from another House over for lunch, he will go through the same slip-signing process as he did last year. But if he has a guest, or buys cigarettes, or gets a sirloin steak and three extra grapefruits at supper, then he must use some of the five cent coupons in his ten dollar book...
...General Hugh Johnson, looking like a tough sirloin, who pounded the table and belligerently told the committee that it could read what he thought in his columns...