Word: swashed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inevitably, the first bloom wore off. Many a disciple, alarmed by the New Deal's hunger for power, and by the growing debt, broke with Roosevelt: men like Raymond Moley, the Blue Eagle's swash buckling Hugh Johnson, Lew Douglas. Republicans spoke words like "regimentation," "bureaucracy"; many a thoughtful man repeated them...
Once again Hollywood has failed to depict one of the branches of our armed forces in a realistic light. From "Crash Dive" one might think that our submarine fleet operates on a Buck-Rogers-of-the 25th-century schedule. Fantastic is the word for it. Tryone Power is the swash buckling sub officer who leads his men through incredible danger to blast the enemy base into technicolored flames and gore. The plot is there, but in the usual and tiring mask of the eternal triangle...
Fortunately, "Torrid Zone" doesn't have to depend upon her. Jimmie Cagney is in there demonstrating that he is probably the best all around swash-buckler in the flickers--that in spite of his five foot four or so. And there is also an amazingly good script. The dialogue moves swiftly, with every now and then a remark which actually bears repeating the next time you wish to appear as a hot fox. Most of the cracks attest to the increasing senility of the Hays Office: some of them are downright shocking...