Word: walks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 the bells of his old church, knows that he must walk back to his pulpit once more. The subject of the last sermon which he delivers, while his enemies wait outside the church, is that he and others like him are waiting...
...administration was disorganized. Adjutant General Colonel Liam Hayes issued a call for 10,000 volunteers within a week. Full-page newspaper advertisements blared out the need for 400,000 volunteers to supplement the regular Army's 70,000 and 120,000 volunteers already under arms. "Everyone who can walk should join the Army," urged Dail members...
...that they are battling the hosts of Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not wait to be thrown to the lions; they walk into the lions' den, and bat its occupants over the head with the complete works of Judge Rutherford...
...wall of the Convention's vast (21,000 seats) Chicago Stadium, a huge picture of a donkey was replaced by a spotlighted, grisly sketch of Franklin Roosevelt. Assiduously distributed were 500,000 campaign buttons, adorned not by a donkey but by a bright red cock-o'-the-walk and the legend: "Just Roosevelt...
...boast that he is acquainted with a glamorous bud named Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). The Judge (Lewis Stone), nominally heading the expedition, is engaged on a legal chore thoroughly in keeping with the Hardy character: protecting the trust fund that supports the Carvel orphanage. Cocks of the walk in Carvel, the Hardys are beset but not conquered by plushy lawyers and frosty headwaiters. Everyone encounters preliminary tribulations before Andy gets to see Daphne through the intercession of the Hardys' old friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland). After the required footage, Andy wins his chastening triumph, the Judge wins his case...