Word: previewer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...middle of the week, no one was as much interested in casualties as in the election results. Official results would not be announced until September, but it was expected that after meeting last week the juntas computadoras (vote-counting boards) would let the public have a preview peek at the count. As if the opposition candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York...
...advertising from other papers)-which it proposed to issue. In an advertisement last week it claimed to have got back 173,006 cards authorizing newsdealers to begin delivering PM at readers' doors with its first issue this week. To those who had returned cards PM sent a "preview edition...
Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader...
...Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A few days after the preview, Producer Hellinger found Cagney's check for $100 in the mail...
Besides Tyrone's thirty college guests the theatre was filled at the preview with a normal Saturday night crowd, who, until the name of the film was flashed on the screen after a little explanation, were absolutely unsuspicious of the "snap" preview trick. One of these Ossining burghers was overheard summing up the situation very neatly. Muttered he, "If I'd of known it wasn't Swiss Family Robinson I would of stayed home...