Word: sorta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Really sorta looked forward to going up in those days," Jimmy says. "I always knocked, of course," before entering the waitresses' rooms, he admits...
...Guess I'm kind of morbid," he asserts. "I'd sorta figured on setting up a little altar in the corner of the room and worshipping the darned thing. Just for a gag you know...
...dance, for instance, the couples jig almost as fantastically as high-lifers at a society ball in a Chaplin comedy. The falseness is also indicated in lines like Miss Fontaine's dreamy: "All brides are beautiful -because they're young and full of hope and-they feel sorta shining inside...
Though Miss Fontaine does studiously unstudied things with her legs, makes her voice gallant and common, performs in fact with a good deal of care and skill, her emphasis on words like sorta is that of a Vassarite. She simply isn't that sorta girl. Newcomer Mark Stevens plays with likable, plain dignity. The attention to veterans and their employment problems is by no means sugarcoated; and when the city itself, or the crummier aspects of its life, dominate the screen, the picture has vigor, beauty and authenticity...
...believe I'd rather 'ave bombs." A policeman, cocking a wary eye skywards, admitted: "Weirdest night I ever had." A delivery boy explained his reaction: "I don't like the idea of nobody in those planes. I don't know why, but it's sorta ghosty...