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Story of Four Feathers, from a Kiplingesque novel by A. E. W. Mason, concerns a young British officer who leaves his regiment on the eve of active duty, gets white feathers from his three old messmates and a fourth from his disillusioned fiancée, and then goes through hell & hot water to give them back. Although this fable is energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting...
...would be in a hell of a fix if we had followed Mr. Chamberlain. We would be in the same fix we were in as a result of the Stimson incident [1932] when he and Sir John Simon endeavored to halt Japan's early conquest of North China . . . holding...
...verbal slugging, scrambling and hell-raising, most people forgot that the entire House situation was only shadowboxing, since the Senate could not and would not even begin action on wage-hour legislation at this session. But the intensity of the fight revealed more clearly than ever the New Deal's slipping grip on Capitol Hill...
...Vanillan cheers and happy song echoing in his ears, Charlie wakes up back in concentration camp, a stormtrooper glowering down at him. Charlie smiles and the stormtrooper starts to smile back. Then his lips freeze and he bellows Charlie Chaplin's curtain line: "Get up, Jew! Where the hell do you think...
...Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best of my knowledge and belief, no Jew who has escaped from the hell of life in Germany owes anything whatsoever to this meeting...