Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn...
...well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...
After months of convalescence, Private Holland wrote a letter home to West Conshohocken, Pa., to his sweetheart, Doris Jane Ruth: "Don't wait for me, I'm pretty shot...
Gradually and uneasily, however, they approach and finally achieve a meeting in the realm of normal human temperature. They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...boys from Brooklyn, then conquered even them with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. But it was greying, ingratiating Maurice Chevalier, with his bawdy wisecracks and old U.S. song hits, who pulled the roof down. When the band struck up the same exit-tune the Canteen plays in Manhattan -Good Night, Sweetheart-the boys balked at leaving. They had finally found just what they wanted-something both redolent of Paris and reminiscent of home...