Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin-motored 6-25s were flown just over the housetops. It would have been no trick to hit Hirohito's palace, but Doolittle had given specific instructions: don't bomb it. "I think several of us dropped bombs within sight of it." The Doolittle plane was attacked by nine Jap fighters, but he rapidly outdistanced them all. Not an American plane was lost (the Japs claimed nine) and the 79 volunteers, along with Doolittle, were all nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross. Still undisclosed was the American planes's base. Unhumorously reporting a heavy Roosevelt jest...
...Edison's old friend Franklin Roosevelt thought he needed New Jersey's colorless Senator William Smathers re-elected this November (the Senator's only achievement is riding the New Deal coat tail) and knew he needed Hague's machine to turn the trick. Edison and his fight to clean up New Jersey politics must wait. Mr. Roosevelt's Justice Department took a look at Mr. Meaney and promptly pronounced him "superior" to the three other candidates...
Ostensibly the saga of honest vs. ruthless salvage-masters off the treacherous Florida Keys of a century ago, the film is actually just a vehicle for every trick of camera and color, every bluff of gargantuan settings, every cliche of plot and dialogue in DeMille's too familiar repertoire. "Reap the Wild Wind" lacks even the barest spark of originality; it is slow, sticky and indescribably dull. Its possibilities as melodrama are almost completely submerged in an orgy of gross spectacle...
Plot is secondary in the work of satire and this one, such as it is, revolves around the device of mistaken identies. The choice was a good one, for it borrowed a trick too conducive to humorous situations to have been exhausted by either Shakespeare or Hollywood. By means of it, Jack Benny can play everyone from a Polish actor to Hitler himself; that he remains very much Jack Benny throughout, only enhances the satire...
...above even that, Stahl has another trick up his sleeve. Without fanfare a capable outfielder came out for practice Monday in the person of the football's scatback Cleop O'Donnell. O'Donnell worked out with the nine in the cage before spring vacation but then switched to football until this week...