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...could point to some entirely respectable poetry he had written in spare moments. He pronounces foreign words with elaborate accuracy?but it is not just an affectation, for he speaks five foreign languages (German, French, Italian, Spanish and Hebrew). He loves to give advice to experts on their own specialty??? theater technicians on lighting, or classicists on Latin?but he has an impressive body of general information and education, including excellent Latin...
...Taxi, Cagney's impudent Irish face is first seen sticking out from behind a steering wheel, spouting Yiddish at a customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty???a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation...
...many bright prospects seen for the trip was that of Dr. Thwing in the rôle of traveling companion, expounding Theology?he is an ordained minister ?to his followers after a visit to the grave of Confucius or a devil-service in Borneo; or Pedagogy?that is his specialty???after inspecting Punjab University at Lahore or a Norwegian public school...
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