Word: angeling
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...police would erase DEATH TO THE TRAITORS OF VICHY, ANNET FOR THE GALLOWS and many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction: AUX ARMES, CITOYENS...
...tale was told. Fifty of them between 15 and 17-ten were girls-had banded together under a 19-year-old leader to form their own unit of the Fighting French. They had certificates of membership and secret meeting places. Theirs were the slogans scrawled at night, the stenciled angel, the Cross outlined in green on Poincaré Square. Of them their leader said: "They're good comrades-no one has ever given away a fellow member...
...visit to the Plymouth sometime in the next few weeks can be justified on the grounds both of entertainment and of education, for "Angel Street" is a well-nigh perfect example of what a cracker-jack cast can do to rescue mediocre melodrama from becoming ridiculous. The play itself is just another mystery, complete with eerily fading gas-lights, a sex-hungry housemaid, and brooches with secret compartments. If read, it would be more an exercise in credulity than an experience in literature...
...Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street" he reaches full stature, playing a tender-hearted sleuth with an ever-present bottle...
Next sensation broke in Paris. In 1909 Epstein was commissioned to carve a figure for Oscar Wilde's tomb. He purchased a 20-ton block of stone, spent nine months in London carving "a demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to Paris. The French were even more shocked than the English. Says Author Black: "This simplified and symbolic statue was violently objected to because it possessed genitals." To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with...