Word: squirmings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This new type of war film is drama that speaks for itself. Whenever the script tries to compete with the action photography there is a momentary embarrassment that is meant to send tingles up and down your spine. You'll squirm through some of the dialogue, but it will be well worth it to see the action...
...worry about getting home in September. Rumor bath it that gas will be abundant and hitch-hiking profitable by that time. No: just pull out the ten spot and slide it to the gent across the desk, paste your picture on the card he gives you, and squirm...
Starting at Home. The Judge has added to his store of knowledge about human nature in these three years. He watched witnesses squirm before him, torn by loyalty to crooked friends, by the desire to save their own hides. He noticed a queer phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...
...Squirm. In Pittsburgh, local cootch dancers organized the Oriental Dancers of Pittsburgh, Inc., to fight for better wages...