Word: smugglers
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...Hepburn is better looking as a boy than as a woman. Just why, in the plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...
During the reign of fat, cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite...
...permission to violate Consul Raouf's diplomatic immunity. When he was found to have brought in 27 fur coats, four cases of the best caviar and other salable Soviet goods, Consul Raouf was fined $2,100, sent to jail last week for one year as a smuggler...
Nurse Edith Cavell, as every British heroine worshipper should know, was a smuggler of men. She was shot for heroically smuggling Allied soldiers out of territory occupied by the Imperial German Armies. Exactly similar was the work of two French heroines, Louise de Bettignies and Marie Léonie van Houtte. Louise died in a German prison. Last week with all possible Paris pomp Marie was married...
...French Catalan fishing village 30 mi. from the Spanish border. In Banyuls 71 years ago Aristide Maillol was born, there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide Maillol's first medium was one that must have caused many an old smuggler to raise an eyebrow. He designed tapestries...