Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Self-Made General. In common with Hitler, Rommel is no Prussian aristocrat. His father was a schoolteacher in south Germany. Like most German boys who were born in 1891, World War I found him serving in the German Army. He started the war as a humble lieutenant, but his war record was remarkable...
Self-Made General. In common with Hitler, Rommel is no Prussian aristocrat. His father was a schoolteacher in south Germany. Like most German boys who were born in 1891, World War I found him serving in the German Army. He started the war as a humble lieutenant, but his war record was remarkable...
...recent years, however, he has shown an increasing, if spare-time, interest in women. He has enjoyed nude dancing exhibitions. He had a platonic admiration for the sightly young English aristocrat Unity Freeman-Mitford, as the "perfect example of Nordic beauty." The bullet wound with which she returned to England after the outbreak of war (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940) was self-inflicted...
Jason, the ivory tower aesthete, has married a girl named Lisa. Actually the daughter of a Southern mill-hand, she poses as an aristocrat from Virginia. Into their marriage comes Mike Ambler, a reasonably accurate facsimile of William Saroyan, whose new play is about to open on Broadway. Ambler takes a fancy to Pason, tears down his reserves, and just as the critic is becoming stale, brings out the human qualities in him. But Ambler also falls in love with Lisa. The night of the opening of Mike's play the crisis comes: Lisa prepares to run off with Mike...
...This Our Life (Warner) is billed as a cineversion of Ellen Glasgow's novel about an ineffectual Southern aristocrat who has lost his money but not his manners. Picture and book have only one thing in common: the title. The film's story is much more like The Little Foxes...