Word: steamboated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny's conquest of the Southwest is more epic and just as robust. Kearny had volunteer trouble too. As he boarded a steamboat before the start of his expedition, he ordered the sentry not to let the volunteers follow him. But they stormed the gangplank. Cried one of the new conquistadors, slapping his commander on the back: "You don't git off from us, old hoss! For by Ingin corn we'll go plum through fire and thunder with you. What'll you drink, General? Don't be back...
...front of bad camels and sometimes are called "dust-devils" for it); jinn (far nicer Arabic folk who come out of bottles and alternately plague and help old people) and the numerous progeny of "Old" Al (the Mississippi River spirit who loves chewing tobacco supplied slyly at night by steamboat hands...
Most early vacationers are rediscovering close-at-home possibilities. Seattle fishermen who went to vaunted hidden streams in the Grand Coulee country are finding good fish in nearby streams. Ohio and Mississippi river dwellers have returned to the old steamboat cruises. Many a resort would be a quiet place this year, would perhaps return to the more languid pre-gasoline pleasures of other times...
...dollars are inseparably twined with its art. Disney fought for both against distributors, who could see small profit in shorts, small reason therefore to make them better. He preached and proved that quality and nothing else would produce advancing prof its. The demonstration began with hastily sound-dubbed Steamboat Willie - first successful Mickey Mouse-and became convincing with the first Silly Symphony to use color, in 1931. But Disney never rested on his Q.E.D. In the full-length surprise triumphs of recent years he taught Hollywood what it had once almost known and then forgotten-that quality pays...
...Korda; United Artists) is the late Carole Lombard's last picture. Like Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino), Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Will Rogers) and Saratoga (Jean Harlow), it was posthumously released. Fortunately for all concerned, To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire...