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According to an old Arabian proverb, brought out of the Old World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1947 | See Source »

...tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories of 'inner cheeks' you might call Conservative, a tug of war ensued in me. It ended with my becoming what some people have called a fence sitter...

Author: By H. B., | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/1/1947 | See Source »

Kilty also announced that he is looking about for a "sitter" for the baby of Donna Holabird, who will play the role of Saint Joan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vets' Workshop Hunts For Rehearsal Room, Chorus, 'Baby Sitter' | 2/26/1947 | See Source »

...vocation- dog sitting. When friends leave for country weekends, Musician Phil Davis and wife move in and take care of the dogs, meanwhile enjoying the change from their own cramped apartment. "Most of the dogs have their own little routines and you have to follow them just so," said Sitter Davis. "If you don't . . . you have a little mopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...while rummaging with her teen-aged daughter in the attic, Jeanne Grain, a 34-year-old mother, runs across an ancient phonograph record (Rudy Vallee's My Time Is Your Time) and a quaint old snapshot of something called a flagpole sitter. In heaven's name, mother (gasps the bobby-soxer), what was life like back in those funny, faraway times? Most of Margie is mother's flashback, Technicolor-and-music reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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