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...Mencken, who dressed like the gallused boors he despised, chewed cigars like a Tammany clubhouse character and had tastes that ran to beer and bawdy jokes, was ever regarded as the epitome of metropolitan sophistication. The term smart set, which was the title of his first magazine, seems sadly unsmart today. The word sophisticated now applies mainly to weaponry and (in Italy) to synthetic wine. Those whom Mencken called "sinhounds," "bluenoses" and "wowsers" are virtually extinct, and Mencken lies amid their megatherian bones...
Like most Hollywood melodramas of the seamy side, Drive a Crooked Road is competently made, i.e., it efficiently machine-stitches the moviegoer's emotions. Rooney plays his fall guy straight down the middle as a decent, unsmart joe who has the usual worries of a man shorter than most of the girls, with the result that he catches the audience's sympathy and holds it even to an improbable end. It is a modest but genuine triumph of self-restrained playing, and suggests that Mickey might well develop from a fine instinctive performer into a keenly conscious...
...What appeared in Missouri to be unsmart local politics looked no brighter from a national viewpoint. It was known that the President had talked over his Slaughter scunner with National Chairman Bob Hannegan and other Party brass. But it seemed clear that the decision to go on the warpath personally was Harry Truman...
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