Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expects, in a Hitchcock movie, a few moments as shockingly vivid as a fire alarm. There are no such moments here. There are many clever little shots-in-the-arm that are unrelated to the story. Innumerable tricks of lighting and mood are moderately effective but irrelevant...
...John Quincy Adams, who died at 80 as a Congressman, had an eye for the female form. (Excerpts from his diary: Miss Frazier "has what is called a genteel shape"; Miss Cazneau "has nothing in her person to recommend her but a very good shape. . . . Mrs. Jones . . . exhibited an arm . . . which might fire the imagination of a sensual voluptuary...
Apparently ignorant of the well-aged chestnut told for years by Wheeler and the late Woolsey, Jones sawed himself out of a middle-sized tree on his front lawn, sustaining a broken right arm in the subsequent descent...
...even if Louis Denfeld was no airman, he knew where to find a good one to take over the Navy's No. 2 spot and the job of running the Navy's air arm. The trick was to break through Administration politics and force his man into the job. Last week he did it. The victory was won when the White House announced that Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the Navy's most outspoken airman, would be Denfeld's vice chief of naval operations...
...disgruntled Navy airmen, whose mortal fear is that the independent Air Force will try to swallow the Navy's air arm, lean, 51-year-old Annapolisman Radford is the one admiral who is outspoken enough to hold the service together. Commander of the Second Task Force of the Atlantic Fleet, he has been a pilot since 1920, has served in nearly every branch of the Navy air arm from fighter squadrons to command of a carrier task group in the Pacific. He has also done his desk time in Washington, got his battle command because of his decisive slicing...