Word: sling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Carolinas since they are the only U.S. battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into "Windy Gulch," between Guadalcanal and Savo, and helped win the great night battle of Guadalcanal by sinking four Japanese warships by gunfire...
Cinemactress Ona Munson, player of aging hospitable shady ladies ("Belle Watling," "Mother Gin Sling"), was chosen by the Chamber of Commerce as Hollywood's official hostess...
...bent visitors into a dense, brush-covered last-stand some 125 yards square. Behind the dense, protective foliage the little men burrowed into foxholes. Snipers tied themselves in trees. So close were the two forces that the Japs' labored breathing was clearly heard. His arm in a bloody sling, Captain C. A. Crome shouted one last ultimatum: "Surrender, you bastards, we've got you surrounded!" The answer floated back in perfect English: "Nerts...
...Shanghai Gesture (Pressburger; United Artists) is a film perversion of Playwright John Colton's flaming melodrama of 16 years ago. Most of its original bawdy plot, language, atmosphere and characterization has been removed. Mother Goddam (Florence Reed in the stage version) is now Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), no longer proprietress of a Chinese bawdy house, but of a gambling casino. As such, she is not sinister but gaudy. So is the pretentious picture...
...this fruitless face-saving is a silly tale of the undoing of little Poppy, who is fresh out of a Swiss finishing school, looks and acts it. She has an affair with Doc Omar. This upsets Sir Guy, who is still more upset when he discovers that Mother Gin Sling is his Chinese wife, whom he had long thought dead. That disclosure makes the slightly tarnished Poppy behave so badly that her mother shoots her dead, and everyone goes home...