Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week a special C. C. N. Y. committee, having considered 60 candidates in its search for a president was ready to report. Its unanimous choice: Dexter Keezer. The Board of Higher Education was prepared for conservative opposition to Dr. Keezer. To its surprise, the storm came from another quarter...
...screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...
Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some political training, Pastor Hall (Wilfrid Lawson) tries hard to understand what the new gospel is about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears...
Mornings Witnesses spread themselves through the city according to prearranged plans. So efficiently did they space their posses that dazed Detroiters thought the city had been taken by storm. Witnesses wore sandwich signs, brandished placards, sowed handbills and pamphlets everywhere. Phonograph-toting canvassers claimed "hundreds of converts...
...Mortal Storm (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Irene Rich; TIME, July...