Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relief. Sonny Tufts, 29, is 4-F's gift to Hollywood. He stands 6 ft. 4 in his socks, bears down on them with 200 Ib. of well-balanced beef and bone. But under all this somatic splendor is a broken man: two shattered shoulders, two knees with floating cartilages, one cracked pelvis, one crushed hand. Causes: sports and fights from prep school on. When he first came up for the Army physical, Tufts was classified 1-B. He asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next...
...mellifluous voice was familiar. The 225-lb. body, superbly carried, the pouched eyes, the air of expensive splendor were familiar too. Most familiar of all was the role. Massachusetts' former Governor and present Democratic National Committeeman, Boston's three-time Mayor, Congressman James Michael Curley has again been indicted, is again the underdog...
Student Body. At war-depopulated Tulane University the June graduating class of the College of Law posed for its picture in solitary splendor...
Jean Arthur, at 37, still is unexcelled at the art of portraying pretty young things; none of Hollywood's starlets can come within a whoop and a holler of her perfection. McCrea, whose "hand-somest pair of masculine legs" are revealed in all their pristine splendor for feminine onlookers, is strong and silent surpassingly. Bennett is good--surprisingly good in a thankless role. But the honors must go to Charles Coburn, whose portraiture of an elderly busybody is convulsingly funny while it ties the picture together. The scene in which McCrea gets his arms around Miss Arthur after five minutes...
...South's in its splendor, the Yanks are all rotters...