Word: refrains
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...week did not mean that no more German planes would fly over Tunisia or that no more Allied men would be killed by German bombs. But it did mean a happy reversal of the refrain of France, Crete and Burma: "Where are our planes...
...direction shoddy. The musical numbers as usual are far better, though only two are really solid from start to finish. Bob Alton's dances and Vernon Duke's music are sprightly and novel, but not up to their previous levels. So we might as well sing the old refrain: "By the time it reaches New York...
...gains of summer were now nearly consumed by the losses of winter. Berlin's communiqués intoned a refrain: "In order to shorten the front . . . the German troops, obeying orders, are withdrawing to a new, shortened line. . . . Movements of our troops continued without interruption by the enemy...
...Hays office. In Nights there is a tubby old boy who claims to have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes the standard Hollywood harem look as well clad as a winter army on the Russian steppes...
...futilities and the dangers of holding that "social reform can wait until after the war" are amply demonstrated by the present excitement in Britain over Sir William Beveridge's monumental report on social security. When the war began, Laborites were admitted to a Coalition Cabinet on condition that they refrain from raising "controversial" issues until after the war. Sir William, to put it mildly, has scattered many a cracker-crumb into the couch of Britain's political bedfellows. His ideas have won such widespread support that the Labor Party has decided to fight here and now for Parliamentary enactment...