Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...discovered that, once dug in, the opposing armies were remarkably hard to penetrate; but after each foozled attack the respective High Commands merely concluded that the next one would have to mass still more men, concentrate still more artillery fire. Thus dryly at first, in terms of headquarters thinking, Romains begins to prepare the reader for the terrific attack that is to come. His camera is still high enough to take in the whole front: "a continuous scratch over which [the troops] formed like a scab and at every point of which they faced the opposing lines with a ceaseless...
...silence finally falling "like a sheet laid upon the face of a dead man," the grey German assault lines straggling like smoke wisps from their trenches, slowly growing into trudging multitudes: from all this Remains turns to French headquarters, where a stiff-necked major refuses to admit a major attack, delays for hours any countermeasures; to General Duroure, shocked to the depths of his soul because a Zeppelin has dropped a bomb on his headquarters, destroying his "things"; to an expensive restaurant in Paris, where the manufacturer, Haverkamp, turns a neat deal in grenades over partridge and Burgundy. These characters...
With their attack shattered by nervousness and lack of spirit, the Varsity hockey team bowed to McGill University in a 7 to 6 defeat at the Boston Arena Saturday night in what was for both sides the opening gun in the International Collegiate League season. The Crimson received their first shutout since Clark Hodder became coach here...
...efforts for a rout, it never displayed its scrappy determination and team play which won the B.U. and St. Nicks tilts. Captain Bill Coleman and his team were worried from the start by McGill's superior, smooth skating outfit, and they never won the confidence to return a concerted attack...
...only are the characters well portrayed but all the technical jobs have been carefully done. The pace, a little too leisurely, perhaps, in the first half, quickens after the intermission, and Scarlett's visit to Rhett in the prison, and the Klan's revenge for the attack on her are overwhelmingly effective. The photography is often brilliant and the color is never in bad taste. The background music is well chosen. It is a movie to be discussed in superlatives, and from all indications, it will still be going strong (at 75e a seat) when our children graduate from Harvard...