You Can't Take It with You (1938)
ismmania
Grandpa Vanderhof:"Why don’t you write a play about ism-mania?"
Penny Sycamore:"Ism-mania?"
Grandpa Vanderhof:"Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody’s got an 'ism' these days."
Penny Sycamore:"I thought it was an itch or something."
Grandpa Vanderhof:"It’s just as catching. When things go a little bad now days, you go out and get yourself an 'ism' and you’re in business."
Penny Sycamore:"I've got it, it might help Cynthia to have an 'ism' in the monastery!"
Grandpa Vanderhof:"It might at that... only give her an American-ism. Let her know something about Americans. John Paul Jones, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Edison and Mark Twain. When things got tough for those boys, they didn't run around looking for 'ism's. Lincoln said, 'With malice towards none, with charity to all'. Now days they say 'think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you'."
Penny Sycamore:"Ism-mania?"
Grandpa Vanderhof:"Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybody’s got an 'ism' these days."
Penny Sycamore:"I thought it was an itch or something."
Grandpa Vanderhof:"It’s just as catching. When things go a little bad now days, you go out and get yourself an 'ism' and you’re in business."
Penny Sycamore:"I've got it, it might help Cynthia to have an 'ism' in the monastery!"
Grandpa Vanderhof:"It might at that... only give her an American-ism. Let her know something about Americans. John Paul Jones, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Edison and Mark Twain. When things got tough for those boys, they didn't run around looking for 'ism's. Lincoln said, 'With malice towards none, with charity to all'. Now days they say 'think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you'."