Word: trampe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charles Boyer, who is at once a master of schmalz and a very good actor, gives the picture such tone and unity as it has. Miss Bergman occasionally breaks loose with an eager bit of acting, but it is seldom persuasive. As an international tramp, she is as badly miscast as Boyer would be as an All-America fullback; and she is as tactlessly gowned as she is cast...
...good as his best. The Polish actress, Kasia Orzazewski, and the Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss de Bergh's second husband, and the writers are to be congratulated for daring to suggest in a movie that a successful marriage need not be an eternity of ootchmagootch between...
...took a parable from Mencius : "Here are a small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs remain twofold: 1) aid in the military...
...clawing and kicking. Without changing expression, he shifted his stick to his left hand, and with his right forearm dealt her a terrific swipe which sent her skidding across the road to the curb, against which she gashed her head. The cop looked up and said, "La garce!" (that tramp...
...Luckenbach line decided on drastic action. It announced that intercoastal service would be suspended, Luckenbach's coastal fleet would join its tramp steamers in the international trade. Said the line's acting Pacific Coast manager, Vincent P. McMurdo : "Until we can operate ships on this coast without interference in management by the longshore union, we're pulling...