Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lsingborg Hell'-sing-borg
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...
...North it was a different story. Not only was Narvik soon out of German control - and the road to the vital nearby Swedish ore fields - but the railhead at Namsos on a fjord 55 miles north of Trondheim was not held. From it runs a rail spur down to Hell, near middle Norway's only landing field of military size...
...matured by Duncan's perception, patience and intelligence. The story suggests not only the particular value of the erotic experience for the blind man but the civilized human sanity of his conduct. And-since Author Heppenstall does not cheat, or barely does at the happy end-the particular hell through which this love affair has to pass arises precisely from Duncan's psychology of blindness...
...This Robinson Crusoe business is a lot of tommyrot," he said. "You can't live on a desert island by just plucking fruit off the trees; you've got to work like hell. You can't move anywhere without hacking your way through the bushes. To make a house, you've got to cut the wood, saw it, and plane it. One man has spent well over a year on a hut, and it is barely half finished...