Word: ramparts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father's House. Joseph Mindszenty comes from fighters' country-the low, rolling Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty...
...Gene Kelly is D'Artagnan, and what a D'Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...
...Gotta Stay Happy (Rampart; Universal-International) is a harmless and mildly entertaining little movie-unless it is butterfly-broken on the wheel of Social Significance. * It has lost none of its gloss in translation from a slick-magazine serial to the screen. Smoothly mounted, directed and acted, it is a pat little story about a painfully earnest flyer (James Stewart) who is running his small-time airline straight into bankruptcy. Then he takes aboard a runaway millionheiress (Joan Fontaine...
...beards her husband in the Rampart Street den of his fancy lady and implores him to come back and try to save what is left of their worldly goods and of their lives. He is just getting around to the latter project, with his first cooperation from her, when, after two long hours, the picture ends. The moral appears to be that money isn't everything...
First his music was slow and mournful, wailing and growling, on Dear Old Southland and Summertime. Then it was fast and happy, on New Orleans' oldtime South Rampart Street Parade. After that came soft, sentimental ballads, like Love for Sale...