Word: sword
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ward) finds Joan Bennett ensnarled in the political dirty work of the principality of Lichtenburg during the days of Bismarck and Louis Napoleon. Like California's Zorro, he acts the fop in public, climbs into a black hood in private, lashes out at intrigue with his lethal, hardworking sword. Because nothing, including the eventual death of scheming, scar-faced Gurko Lanen (George Sanders), comes as a surprise, a certain necessary element of suspense is missing from these adventures...
...drafting. At 29 reception centres rookies were shucked out of mufti, inoculated, vaccinated, shod and asked such questions as: "How many nickel cigars can you buy for 20??'' "How many dozen will 42 oranges make?", asked to say whether a pistol was a gun, a knife, a sword or a pencil...
...gives a tense, natural portrayal of inner torment. Ralph (brother of Frank) Morgan seems rather too professional to be convincing as the father, but Tom Powers plays an intelligent priest to the life. John Hoysradt appears as an outrageously affected writer whose rasping impudence stabs the girl like a sword...
...Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since the Ulster Government's establishment in 1920, implacable foe of Irish independence for more than 30 years; at his country house near Belfast. Famed alike for his bluntly uttered opinions and his fierce disregard of metaphorical discipline, once he roared: "The naked sword is drawn for the fight, and, gentlemen, never again will the black smoke of Nationalist tar barrels drift on the Home Rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen...
...nonrecognition of the new Consul, fearing he would use his diplomatic immunity to promote Cuban fascism. Other Cubans stirred up so much trouble that police barred all visitors from the pier when the Marques de Camillas pulled in. Then shrewd Boss Batista heard his present was to be a sword from the Spanish Falangist Party and turned it down before it was even offered. Said his secretary: "He esteems it improper and inappropriate to think that a foreign political party with an ideology so contrary to that of the persons who have elected him should intend such...