Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
California Democrats are out this year to liquidate Republican Congressman Leland M. Ford*-who is what pinko weeklies call "an arch labor-baiter." To do the trick they picked a well-known name that covered an unknown political quantity. Their candidate: Will Rogers Jr., 29, son of the late, famed humorist...
...editorial is almost a blueprint of how to make an involved, dull, major aspect of World War II understandable and acceptable to moviegoers. Its scenes are a nicely edited compilation of captured German war films, Allied newsreels, and a few sequences shot by the Canadian Government film unit. The trick is to put the ingredients together to produce a picture like Food...
...intelligent. A good many of them have fine senses of humour. But when it comes to beauty, there's a minority that George White wouldn't be ashamed of mixed in among a vast majority of twisted-seamed, straight haired, bespectacled young women, who are, aesthetically speaking, nonentities. The trick is to pick the sheep from the goats...
Kaiser's new record comes less than a month after WPB patted him on the back for completing a ship in 78 days-almost one month faster than other builders. Explaining that prefabrication turned the trick, Kaiser this week admitted: "I didn't know whether it would work...