Word: undresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grows he gathers much And learns the use of "I" and "me". . . . Apparently we have arrived at a point where it is not necessary for the baby or anyone else to learn the difference between the nominative and accusative cases. ... Is this perhaps a Churchillian bit of undress in order to gain the approval of the masses? . . . Perhaps Churchill's "me" does even include...
What audiences would make of Jane's films was still uncertain. The two pictures offered a wide choice. Young Widow, a sentimental wartime domestic drama with incidental stretches of comedy, was overwhelmingly Jane-in mourning, in love, in various stages of dress and undress. In The Outlaw, Oldtimers Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston did their sly best with the saga of Billy the Kid. Jane, as a sulky, sexy, persistently semiclad half-breed, had a relatively minor part...
There were other reminders of Japanese rule. Young men were off fighting as guerrillas. There were very young children, now, whose eyes had a marked and curious slant. Stories of Jap cruelty were told and retold: of the nuns forced at bayonet point to undress and be photographed. And in many a town, signs like "Banzai Restaurant" were visible through the hastily-slapped-on coats of fresh paint...
...heard about a young Polish girl who had refused to undress for a shower. The degenerate, sadistic Mussfelt who ran the crematorium ordered her shoved into the furnace alive. Her hair burned quick and bright. Then she crisped up like bacon on an over-hot skillet...
Catherine Was Great (by Mae West; produced by Michael Todd) is an opulent and incredible fancy-undress affair in which the queen of all the sirens essays the Empress of All the Russias. "Catherine," said Mae West in a first-night curtain speech, "had 300 lovers. I did the best I could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless...