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George Patton, General, is a dazzling mixture. The oldest field commander of any Allied army in Europe (he will be 60 next Armistice Day), Patton is still tigerish in action. On the field he shouts orders in a high-pitched voice. He can rawhide a private or a lesser general with a flow of profanity that is perhaps the richest in all the hard-swearing U.S. armies. A moment later he can be gently lifting a wounded man from a tank, calming him with soothing words...
...with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
...This philosophical approach trips and stumbles into paganism when he takes to liquor while his wife and Joe go off to the game together. In a hilarious drunk scene he resolves to hold his mate as a tiger does-by fighting for her. He does hold her-not with tigerish might, but by reading the trustee-forbidden Vanzetti letter to his composition class and becoming the college hero...
Clash by Night (by Clifford Odets; produced by Billy Rose). The husband, the lodger, the dissatisfied wife, turn up once again, to provide the season's biggest disappointment-a play by Odets with Tallulah Bankhead as star. As the wife, Tallulah has her fine sultry and tigerish moments, but seems out of her milieu-much more like the daughter of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives than the wife of a bohunk...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox soon appeared in New York salons trailing her inimitable chiffons, a light-haired poetess whose eyes "had tigerish gleams when she wore her favorite topaz...