Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine days after their forced landing, the party, packing grouse which Scalise had boiled, decided to try to walk out of the bush. Stirling-Hamilton had a hand compass to keep them on their course, and they headed due south. It was slow going. They bogged down in the soggy muskeg. Farther on, in a tangle of fallen timber, they almost came to a dead stop, made only ten miles in two days...
...Detroit, Indianapolis, Galesburg, Ill., alarmed parents were getting the law after the bad books. So far, newspapers have been slow to take the stick to their own offspring...
...slow. This item is thickly settled...
...revival produces few of the well-remembered howls and wonderful aching bellylaughs. Never anything more than sheer slapstick with all the attendent pratfalls, squashed toppers, and skinned knees, "Bringing Up Baby" lacks the necessary speed of action and the vital, high caliber gags to carry it over the inevitable slow spots. It bogs and badly after starting off at a tremendous clip. The middle reels, where any normally intelligent gagman would be clearing the decks for a final smashing boffola, are gummed up by a miserably dull jail routine that talks the audience straight into dreamland. And they sleep right...
...means living in a student boarding house in the Latin Quarter. It also means that plenty of veterans are living like kings on their G.I. checks. Unfortunately a lot of them only go to school once a week and commute to the Riviera, and the U.S. Embassy is very slow to catch...