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Word: flashbacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, told in flashback, reports the private and professional experiences of several nurses (Barbara Britton, Mary Servuss, et al.), three in particular, who reached the Philippines just in time for Bataan. Lieut. Davidson (Miss Colbert) does her best to liquidate her love for a Medical Corps Lieutenant (George Reeves) in the name of duty. She fails. Nurse O'Doul (Miss Goddard), a handsome 110-lb. of salt-of-the-earth with an incurable penchant for sheer black night gowns, kids around tenderly with a pleas ant ex-footballing Marine named Kansas (Newcomer Sonny Tufts). Nurse D'Arcy (Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson's memories, turns them into vivid, detailed, often moving episodic stories. So skilfully does Marquand recapture the mood of middle-class U.S. life during the last 35 years that most readers will overlook the artificiality of the flashback technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand on Manhattan | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...

Author: By I. M. H., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...thrown away his delayed response and his bewildered expression, and emerges as a philosophical sort of fellow, the hero of the picture. Panamint is a town (not a chewing gum), and Mr. Ruggles is its boss (not its parson). Though it starts rather slowly, with a gloomy sort of flashback, it soon gets moving and hits a quick and gripping pace...

Author: By J. M., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Flashback. Scion of an Army-officer family, the Shah was born in 1876 in the Firuzkuh district east of Teheran. Iran was Persia then; and in the '80s Russia, which had steadily picked off Persia's northern provinces, conspicuously strengthened her position at Teheran by organizing under Tsarist officers the Persian Cossack Brigade, most effective military force in the country. This rough & tough outfit Reza, a youngster of 24, joined as a trooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IRAN: Persian Paradox | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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