Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture has its Woolley moments, however. One of them comes when Monty, as a department-store Santa Claus, sucks "Alabama fog-cutters" (cocktail of unspecified ingredients) through a tube from a hot-water bottle concealed under his suit, and suddenly roars at all the kiddies and mammas: "How I hate you, one and all!" Another occurs when he stares coldly at an unwelcome female admirer (Sara Allgood) and remarks: "I have no idea what bearing it may have on your plans, but I now propose to remove my trousers...
Superman set out on a swim to Germany, to right the wrong of a generation and ultimately end the crudest comic-strip continuity yet: the Nazis had kidnapped Santa Claus...
...England Feels" tells us "Russia is immensely popular there and Uncle Sam is scarcely noticed." Look at that now ! Here we have been doing all but growing whiskers to look like Santa Claus in Johnny Bull's eyes. We'd better forget the whiskers. He'd probably notice us then and think we looked like the devil...
While the undergraduate body was scraping up the enjoyments of a war time Santa Claus and blowing an ironical horn on New Year's Eve, President Conant quietly made another of his speeches. He stated that, "The day the Nazi regime collapses . . . the United States must be ready to assume political and economic leadership of the world. . . We shall have to insist that the final international order will be based on freedom." This was the urgent warning which he couched in phrases of provocative advice...
First U.S. sport event definitely war-blanked, at least for 1942, is Akron's national Soap Box Derby, and the tournaments that precede it in 120 U.S. cities. As embarrassed as if they had to tell them there is no Santa Claus, spokesmen for the Chevrolet company, which puts up the prizes (college scholarships, automobiles, wrist watches, etc.), broke the news to U.S. youngsters. Alleged reason: shortage of rubber and metals for scooter wheels...