Word: dawn
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...cold, frosty dawn broke over Moscow while the stars slowly died out. Automobiles, busses and tram cars already fill the streets with life, but now for the fourth day this is a different life from the one we ' were used to when Moscow was not only the heart of Russia and the most beautiful city, but also the cradle of all that is best in the Russian genius. Moscow has taken to arms. Moscow is preparing to fight...
...dawn one morning last week, from fire towers in Massachusetts, from skyscrapers in Manhattan, on lonely farms in Pennsylvania, on sandy knolls along the Virginia coast, from 1,600 posts along the Atlantic seaboard, 40,000 pairs of civilian eyes peered at the sky. These volunteer watchers were inaugurating the biggest rehearsal for air-raid defense ever undertaken in the U.S. They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were...
...always the scientific naturalist. He would never be found telling "whoppers" over the bridge table, polishing his fishing pole in the living room, or mounting his prize catch for that revered space above the mantelpiece. He loves being alone in the woods, getting up at the crack of dawn, taking long walks over the mountain paths--all the atmosphere and environment of fishing, fully as much as he does the game end of it. "Sharks are very good fun," he admits, "but I'd rather catch a five inch trout with a two ounce pole, than anything in deep water...
...died at 50, from a chronic liver ailment. From his big sister, who had tried to look after him ever since they were orphaned, he received the kind of tribute which might make any man glad that he had lived. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt loved her brother dearly. At dawn one morning she left his bedside, rode back to the White House, wrote this moving obituary for her syndicated column...
...Dawn's three principals are so perfectly cast that they seem to have been especially equipped to play their roles. Miss de Havilland's performance and some of the film's minor business are artfully done. If Director Mitchell Leisen and Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. had been content to strip the picture of its elaborate frills (e.g., a prolonged cops-&-robbers chase, a native festival) and tell it simply, it might have been Grade...