Word: sourpusses
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Oddly enough, the two castaways do not hit it off at first. Lieut. Smythe pulls rank on the corporal and calls him an "unpleasant brat"; he responds by calling her a "sourpuss." But in due course things get back to normal, and they are seen bounding along the beach clad in breezy tropical raiment and quaffing coconut milk. Unfortunately, their tropical paradise is short-lived, for a handsome R.A.F. pilot (Donald Gray) crash-lands on the island...
...back in Salt Lake City with her husband instead of in the Alps with the U.S. Women's Olympic ski team. On a visit to a Swiss doctor during the tryouts, she was surprised to learn that she was one month pregnant. Surprised and shocked, sourpuss U.S. Olympic officials brusquely scratched her name and ordered her home. In Manhattan, the U.S. Olympic Committee called Suzy's summary treatment "regrettable," promised to send her a letter of apology...
...admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...
...stepmother is wicked enough to make Judith Anderson look like Pollyanna. These three characters are drawn in an attempt at literal likeness that the best technique of animation never brings off without a certain stiffness. Nonetheless, the spell is never broken. The rest of the human characters, including the sourpuss stepsisters, move flexibly in delightful caricature, and the animals are pure Disney...
Harold Ickes, perennial sourpuss of New Deal philosophy, quit all his other writing jobs to concentrate on a new weekly series he is beginning for the New Republic...