Word: bulldoggish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare coin that has been stolen from a dreary Pasadena mansion. Raymond Chandler's famed private detective Philip Marlowe, this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang of gamblers, a blackmailer, three...
...Loud criticism of the Allied war strategy (in 1943 he wanted emphasis shifted to the Pacific, said he was "unable to agree" with Winston Churchill). ¶ A bulldoggish attitude about Army promotions ("I'm not going to just rubber-stamp everything they bring up"). ¶ A miniature political tempest when a rival in the 1942 campaign charged that a Louisville contractor had built a swimming pool in his backyard as a gift. (Happy was cleared...