Word: winchell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cracked Columnist Winchell: "Me und President Rosenfeldt!" Walter Winchell's real name: Winchel...
Near Paris, Tex., irascible Farmer Marion Mackey lost his temper at his neighbors' trespassing chickens, grabbed his shotgun, told his wife: "I'm going to kill that whole damn outfit." Marching to the farm of Neighbor James Winchel Snow, 79, Marion Mackey began shooting. When he had mowed down Farmer Snow and Mrs. Snow, their two daughters and son-in-law-killing three of the five-Mackey was still mad. On his way to hide out in the Red River bottoms, he stopped to kill Farmer Dee Chandler, who was plowing a field...
...strength of "Love and Hisses," lies in its humor, which ranges from the involved practical jokes of the city slicker, as played by Mr. Winchel and Mr. Bernie, to the magnificent clowning of Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, who make a good bid to steal the show. In between these extremes, however, is the simpler and far more appealing humor of the naive mind, childishly coping with the wicked world. At this sort of thing, strangely enough, Mile Simon is very good indeed...
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