Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slapstick, gotten up as an elaborate spoof of Hollywood westerns, quickly gets out of hand. So does Grable. As a pistol-packing hussy in bustles, Betty takes a potshot at her wayward boy friend (Cesar Romero), nicks instead the wrong end of the local judge. While wriggling out of a jail sentence, she again flies off the handle, again dents the judge in the rear. In the last reel she does it a third time...
...after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton won the contest, and Mom promptly went to work on his career as if it were a sacred mission. As he grew, his age could be reckoned by his billing: "The Shimmy Kid," "The Child Wonder," "The Wayward Youth...
Hollywood has given The Fan some handsome costumes and sets, retained a few of Wilde's wittier lines, and plumped out the familiar plot, like a tired old pillow, into a new but improbable shape. As the wayward Mrs. Erlynne, Madeleine Carroll is going about in present-day London. So is the once dashing Lord Darling-:on (George Sanders). Weighed down by :heir years and greasepaint, they piece together the old story in flashbacks...
...first half of the novel, Mother Danforth's mind wanders wayward through the past, remembering all that a reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession...
...conference as a whole, but was asked to sit in on a special session at Chequers, Prime Minister Attlee's country home. There the delegates discussed what would happen if Eire carried out her plan to leave the Commonwealth. The delegates were agreed that such a wayward sister would lose trade preferences and the right of her people to emigrate to other Dominions...