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...floor to continue his case against the man he called the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S. At frequent intervals, he sipped from a small brown bottle of cough medicine. By the time he had finished, four hours later, his thinning black hair was rumpled and damp with sweat. His necktie was loosened and yanked askew...
...part of Mrs. Keith, Claudette Colbert is at last emancipated from the kind of role where she has to choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...
...Harvard freshman, word went round that he might turn pro after the 1950 championships, to cash in on his crowd appeal as 1948 Olympic Women's Champion Barbara Ann Scott had done. Last week Sophomore Button settled that rumor. Said he: "Think I'm crazy enough to sweat through two years of Harvard and then not finish...
...while standing so, the interrogation continued ... I recall that the muscles on my legs and shoulders began to get cramped and to tremble, that my two fingers began to bend down under the pressure, to get red all over and to ache, I remember that I was drenched with sweat and that I began to faint, although I had not exerted myself in any way. If I would try to substitute [fingers], I would be instantly called to order . . . And when the trembling increased up to the point when I collapsed, they made me sit and speak...
...Eliot a great poet? His own age would not call him so, and doubts that posterity will. In his revulsion from vulgarity and muddled sentimentality, he has perhaps moved away too far from the heat of emotion and the sweat of action. His attitude toward the U.S. is significant. He remembers it fondly, sometimes signs his name Tom (Missouri) Eliot, and likes to sing U.S. folk ballads, though he has a hard time staying on key. But he does not seem to understand America (although he comes to the U.S. on frequent visits), shrinks from its materialistic gusto...