Word: syrups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventeenth-Century housewives, ignorant of a new beverage called "tea," served the leaves with sugar or syrup, threw away the liquid...
...manufacture syrup...
...smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...
...last September ordering all official Government statements to be funneled through OWI was still being ignored-and with the President's knowledge & consent. But the real issue was still this: Is U.S. public opinion something to be manipulated by alternating kicks in the pants and doses of soothing syrup, or should the people be given the facts and allowed to make up their own minds...
...LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians tie him up, tomahawk him; maple syrup falls on his bare feet, dogs of all sizes lick it off; a covey of surgeons, to whom he tries to explain his predicament, go to work on him under the impression that he is insane...