Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Payne, he turns around and makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life of a Marine. What should have been the thriller of the year develops into a rehash of Frank Merriwell, tame enough for Grandma, too trite for anyone else...
Moontide (20th Century-Fox) has what many a female cinemaddict would like to have: a rough, tough man, with romantic overtones, to take home and tame. He is seamy, sturdy, slow-burning Jean Gabin, onetime foundry worker, marine and music-hall comic, whose talent for acting natural and talking slang made him France's No. 1 male cinemactor...
After Jacoby's last-minute escape from Manila, his numerous close shaves on Bataan and his really dangerous escape through the Jap blockade (TIME, April 13), Australia looked almost like a tame haven...
...mother, in her girlhood, was bonded-out to an Ohio farmer. Sherwood and his sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...
Solitaire (adapted by John van Druten from Edwin Code's novel; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...