Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle has behind him the support of most of the still-free French empire (except North and West Africa); and of the audible political factions inside France. He has strong support in Britain, where he has worked closely with British officials. A Hyde Park comic drew laughs last week by purposefully mixing up Free, Fighting and Flirtatious French; but to the British people and Frenchmen imprisoned in their homeland De Gaulle is respected as a gallant fighter who carried high the French tricolor when other Frenchmen faltered, compromised...
Jimmy McHugh songs, a ribald number (Fuddy-Duddy Watchmaker) by Betty Hutton, some neat hip-swinging by Miss Martin and some homespunish philosophy by Comic Eddie Bracken (sample: "You only get out of a sweater what you put into...
This bruise was augmented by his encounter with the Fred Allen program later that night after the Kids vanquished the commentators. Comic Joe Besser hurtled off the stage and bowled the waiting Kupperman into the wings. The Kid came up weeping, but went on anyway. The incident did not halt his plea for a pet to take home with him. Deciding that rabbits "whelped too fast," he settled for a parrot ("It wouldn't eat too much or have to go out for walks...
...trouble. Paulette falls for Ray, and without letting him know she is now the "globalonier," gets him out of the situation, finally wianng him from Virginia. Fields. Bill Bondix, who slugged Alan Ladd into the "Land of Nod" so brutally in "The Glass Key" is good as a comic chaffeur. With its unique plot and rollicking pace, you wen't have a dull moment...
Planning to hold a meeting in the Stag Club soon, the group has resolved to join the Elks and the Mooses in a discussion on the possibilities of "Long Dialogue in the Modern Comic Strip," "Sending Dance Hall Girls' Little Sisters To Yale," and "The Place of the Egyptian sacred Bird in the Development of Modern Slang...