Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easygoing Senator John Gillis Townsend of Delaware is no Lone Ranger. Gregarious John Townsend, whose head looks like a snowball bush in full bloom, is solidly Republican, completely acceptable to Delaware's Du Pont dynasty. Annually he 1) presents gallery newsmen and the Senate with all the sweet-tart spring strawberries they can eat, 2) gets through sessions with as little effort as possible...
...Pennsylvania basketball team turned the tables on the Crimson last night, winning the return game between the two by one solitary point, 36 to 35, and getting a sweet revenge for the last-second, overtime defeat inflicted on them a week and a half ago by the Harvard eagers...
There's where the lim'ricks warble sweet in the springtime...
...Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from the windows along Baton Rouge's Third Street; marchers in the parade threw handfuls of aluminum sales-tax tokens in the crowd. Because Earl Long had called Sam Jones "high-hat, sweet-smelling Sam Jones," marchers wore high hats, carried mops. Baton Rouge had seen nothing like it since the Armistice. Neither had Lake Charles, where 20,000 people formed in a four-mile parade, stores closed, theatres cut their programs, thousands of tax tokens were dumped, and police roped...
...especially when he is playing, as in "Remember the Night," a local boy from the Wabash country of Indiana who has made good in the big city as an assistant district attorney. The two of them together have been able to do a lot for this over-sweet litle romance; some who have seen it say it made them remember all the girls they had ever been in love with. It is pure sentiment, the triumph of unsophisticated country hospitality over city-bred cynicism. Barbara Stanwyck manages to make the seamy side of life look alluring, but Boy Scout MacMurray...