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Turning the little knobs on her gun predictor for the first time in real action, 18-year-old Private Nora Caveney matched up the pointers, cried: "On target." As the guns spat, came the high whine of German bombs, a crash. A hot, jagged bomb splinter ripped through the sandbags and struck Nora Caveney in the chest. Another girl jumped into her place; another treble cry went up: "On target...
...story of this latest of his adventures isn't anything startlingly new, nor should it be. Instead, Nick and Nora Charles amuse themselves and the audience in their accustomed breezy fashion. All of the superb minor characterizations are present here again, and while you may have seen them before, you've never seen them funnier...
...Shadow, the same couple, Nick & Nora Charles (William Powell & Myrna Loy), are still married, still in love, but the pace, bounce, snappy dialogue, the old fillip of murder and of amiable dipsomania have given way to resigned indigestion and middle age. Even Asta, their renowned beerhound who suffers nervous breakdowns, can pass a fire hydrant now without so much as an inquiring sniff...
Francis might never have become a priest at all had not the girl he was in love with found herself with child but without husband. Forced into a decorous marriage by the Church, she threw herself under a train. "First his parents; and now Nora. He could no longer ignore these testaments from above. ... He would give himself entirely...
...Joyces (wife Nora, son Giorgio) lived in Paris. His daughter Lucia, who suffered from a nervous disorder, was in a sanatorium near St. Nazaire. A devoted father, Joyce worried much about Lucia, spent a good part of the income left him by Admirer Harriet Weaver on Lucia's doctor and sanatorium bills. When war broke out, he hurried to St. Nazaire...