Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Next? Molotov's note was neither a declaration of war nor, necessarily, of intent to go to war. Legally, the treaty still had a year to run after the notice of cancellation. But the Foreign Commissar's tone suggested that this technicality might be brushed aside at Russia's convenience...
...uglier moments a pathos at once living and restrained. Herbert Marshall as the blind musician (Mr. Marshall is certainly Hollywood's No. 1 Man Next Door) and Mildred Natwick as the clairvoyant do their hammy tasks well and from the heart, as befits good craftsmen. The one note of viciously painful reality in the production is the moment when Richard Gaines, as the hero's high-class stepfather, who is visiting the pair's enchanted cottage and not liking it one little bit, indecently opens a tea-sandwich and sniffs...
...Note to all midshipmen: Don't worry, boys--if you don't make the lower quartile this term, it's very easy to accomplish it during your junior semester! Tomorrow marks the 70th day before our next leave. That makes Thursday kind of a big holiday. Now we can sing truthfully...
Next day a magistrate fined him 2,000 lire ($20). Since that was more than the sauntering Marquis had on him, he sent his wife an urgent note, explaining his predicament and asking for a change of clothes with money. In next to no time a messenger arrived at the jail with two 1,000-lire bills, clean clothes, two fresh packs of Chesterfields...
Nevertheless, the Boz's roommate, Ned Bailey, says that we should note how well Boz did in his Disbursing recitation; but that's only because he took the Manual and Memo home with him on leave--Ned saw him packing them. Now Ned says that even when he, Bailey, works his normal 23 hours a day he can't keep up with his roommate in this course...