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Capital, he argues, must have the masses to fight the fascists. Hence labor has capital by the throat, and the sporting thing for capital to do is to lie down, twitch feebly...
...stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When he talks of this nefarious possibility, his big eyebrows twitch, his face darkens. Said he last week: "The Republican Party stands today where the Continental Army stood at Valley Forge, and if Haym Salomon and Robert Morris could empty their purses to keep that army alive, so can we." (Few days later, Governor Arthur Horace James used the same language...
...vast fireplace, beamed ceilings, wide-board floors. Over the rolling, spring-green hills he looked and said, with his quick, humorless smile: "I get about three tons of manure off the pasture every year. The New Deal can't take that away from me." And, with a twitch of his bushy eyebrows: "If I'm busted in November, and the Republicans have won, I'll be satisfied...
Hollywood's champion long-distance emotional gamut-runner, Luise Rainer has a real field day in Dramatic School. Her rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara...
...soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with a solution of salt and sugar...