Word: wariest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposing batteries have plenty of respect at all times for Luke, who led the American League's hitters in 1936 and 1943, has a lifetime batting average of 312. But they are wariest when he complains loudest about his health, for it is a long-established fact that he plays best when he feels worst...
...inevitably misleading as well as mushy. But because the story leaves room for a lot of sincere sentiment and for even more acting-for-acting's sake, the story is also an extremely efficient tear-jerker which can get past the guards of even the wariest. With genteel taste and loving care, RKO has turned it into the best sentimental picture of the season...
Argentina. Wariest of all is balky, recalcitrant Argentina, the bad boy of Pan-Americanism. Though linked by cultural and historical ties to its Yanqui neighbor to the north, Argentina would rather manage the southern theatre itself, has a dread of U. S. dominance...