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...screen's countless observations on show business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...
...left unwritten, he has existed for some years in a high state of historical dudgeon. The margins of his history books (he owns the largest private Revolutionary War library in the U. S.) crackle with expletive and epithet: "What an ass!"; "Nuts!"; "The louse judgment of a literary louse!"; "Beef from a moose...
...Rich Neigh bor could promise two other favors to the Colossus of the South. One was to keep U.S. wheat out of Brazilian markets, where U. S. dumping in 1938-39 drove Argentine farmers wild. The other was to stand aside on $160,000,000 of beef and corn orders now being placed by the British letting Argentina have first crack...
...LaGuardia: "Mr. Willkie's utterances ... as far as I have quoted . . . [contain] a total of six different positions on foreign policy, nine contradictions . . . regarding the New Deal's policies and legislation, three contradictions on ... power, and one contradiction each regarding the control of monopolies, Government ownership, Argentine beef, and the Third Term...
...After MacDonald and Baldwin came Chamberlain, who "liked to be called 'British like beef,' " but was really "an eccentric figure behind a disguise of excessive normality." The appeasers were in. "All they wanted was to lay their heads on the block and be left in peace, peace!" Von Ribbentrop came visiting and proselyting. "A wave of political perversion broke over polite society...