Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regularly, closer to the target, now directly on it. Aboard the Spencer, after the first wild confusion, there was order, but out in the blinding sunlight and on the glittering blue water there was death. Chattering 20-mms. sent tracer patterns curving into the slowly moving submarine. On the sub's decks a few figures still moved in the storm...
...Kill. The Spencer was turning. The port guns ceased. The sub was dead ahead, so close it could be rammed. But there was no need to ram when it could be smashed with gunfire. The starboard guns took up the battle, blazing at close range. The U-boat's conning tower by now was badly smashed. A lone man, his back toward the Spencer, clung desperately to the conning tower as though being crucified. A shell hit him squarely in the back. He crumpled, slumping down over two other corpses on the narrow deck...
...Spencer passed beyond the submarine, firing slackened. A patch of water was alive with struggling figures, black dots surrounded by bright orange life-jackets, bobbing and pitching in the waves. The sub's conning tower was dented and broken. No life could be seen aboard. Waves washed over her decks. She was done...
...retired industrialist, Coburn pokes his way into the national capital, where he imperially rents half of a three-room apartment from its attractive occupant. Jean Arthur. He obviously considers himself old enough to be her mother, and thus overrides her misgivings. Behind her back, he then proceeds to sub-sublet half of his half to a clean young stranger, Joel McCrea. When Jean's stuffy Government boss takes her out to dinner, Coburn & McCrea sardine themselves into a dismal nightclub only to find that it is the scene of their landlady's tedious date. Coburn draws...
...look very prettily flustered as the patriotic tenant who rents half her apartment to one Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn). Dingle's inordinately long nose perceives that his landlady is far from satisfied with her fiance, Charles J. Pender-gast (Bruce Bennett), an effectively sickly-looking Washington bureaucrat. So Dingle sub-lets his half of the apartment to a "fine, clean-cut, high-living young man," Joe Carter (Joel McCrea). By the Hollywood law of mutual gravitation, the two are drawn together and the result is the usual ending, although a little more drawn out than is usual...