Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...province last week. Kianfu boasts a Christian cathedral. From it the bandits kidnapped three French nuns, two priests: one French, one Chinese. The whites were prudently held for $20,000 ransom apiece. Nobody seemed likely to pay $20,000 for a Chinaman. While the nuns gasped Pater Nosters through stiff white lips, Father Paul Cheng was led before them to the cathedral steps, brutally beheaded...
...which is simply a big screen. Some of the sequences in which John Mack Brown drawls through the role of Billy are effective, many of them are absurd, and in general Billy the Kid lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw out of his cave by cooking bacon where he can smell...
...with the pomp & majesty of his Papal Court to sanctify the bones of the ecstatic little man who was born Francis Bernardone and to bless the foundation of the church of St. Francis rising over his grave, has little hillside Assisi been thrilled as it was last week. The stiff coattails of the bearded, bustling proprietor of the Hotel Subasio flapped with excitement, mayor and corporation excitedly talked plans for two days. Even the Franciscan brothers in the monastery, the Poor Clares in their convent, read their offices with a certain worldly detachment. For Princess Giovanna, next-to-youngest daughter...
True, the last company comes up on the line and dresses smartly, the adjutant bawls out "Parade Rest," the band sounds off," marches forward to troop the line, and the 1200 stand stiff and motionless. That's all the spectator sees at parade...
Prince Arthur, representing the Royal Family, sat ramrod stiff at the head of the glistening Guildhall board, waited with just the proper, courteous inclination of his head for James Henry ("Jimmy") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions, to propose his very good health...