Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood can be especially obnoxious when it becomes proud of itself, and in "Follow The Boys" it has fairly oozed self-congratulation. The effect is disgusting and the audience restlessly tends to walk out of the theatre after half an hour...
...some reason un fathomable to Germans the strange civilian residents of the isles did not yet seem to be caught with the pre-invasion tension which gripped the rest of the world. Some of them were even talking about the price of lettuce and the tulips in Birdcage Walk. As at so many other critical periods in World War II, the British did not seem to comprehend the mighty portents of the hour. Or did they? It was too puzzling for Teutonic minds to solve...
...travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced him two years later, he locked himself up again, seldom ventured out after remarrying his second wife...
...pecked husband, domineering wife, spinster sister-in-law, and haughty cook all enter the mix-up. Though some of the scenes where the maid, after finishing three bottles of Scotch, takes the baby out for a walk and makes long distance calls to California are as funny as the best comedies, "Three's A Family" is not always up to par. It is good in spots and barely gets by the rest of the time...
...year board chairman of Montgomery Ward was carried out by Sergeant Jacob L. Lepak of Milwaukee and Private Cecil A. Dies of Memphis. The two soldiers picked 170-lb. Sewell Avery up by his arms and thighs, carried him to the elevator. Mr. Avery refused to walk in; the soldiers picked him up again. In the elevator Sewell Avery said: "I'll be glad when this is over." On the main floor he again refused to budge. The soldiers hoisted him up, carried him past a handful of startled clerks in the lobby, and down the main steps...