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But for the thin line of communication across Lake Ladoga the city almost certainly would have fallen. In the summer tugs, fishing boats and other vessels ran the gantlet of German bombers to bring food, munitions and raw materials to the city, to take wounded, women & children and war products...
Here is a truly extraordinary book, a one-man five-ring verbal circus, a phantasmagoria of wit, satire, irony, invective, diatribe, rhetoric, and pulpit oratory. The style is variously compounded of elements from Sterne, Carlyle, Swift, H. L. Mencken, and the book of Jeremiah. Yet, appearing now at a time...
One reason is that Commandos unwisely attempts to combine two pictures in one. Picture No. 2-the raid-is overshadowed by Picture No. 1-the stirring story of the Norwegian fishing village where the raid eventually takes place. Acted with superb restraint by Paul Muni and an excellent cast including...
Skipper Bruton made a course for the nearby Officers' Club, ordered a beer. Then, like every returned skipper, he told his yarns. There were casual yarns, such as the one about how he had been playing bridge when an alarm came, so put down his hand warning no one...
¶Reader Bush is not so salty as he thinks. A full-rigged ship and a schooner are two things. But of late years so many Gloucester fishing schooners have been built "bald-headed"-that is, without topmasts or topsails-that to distinguish the few which still carry all their...