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...Home, and the camera, by focusing on it, never lets you forget it. First to descend is Young Toby Miniver, who clumps down with his cat under his arm, shouts to his father with understandable urgency: "I can't stop, Daddy; Napoleon wants to throw up." Last to ascend is Vin, the R.A.F. pursuit pilot. The enemy and death pass him by in battle but kill his young bride (Teresa Wright) at home. He realizes the meaning of the words "a people...
...believe me that this opposition of mine is no mere political dispute; it is a deep conflict of principle. I hold that no man should ascend to the bench to pass upon the rights, even the lives, of other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...
...Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of Tides, and possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, was quietly at school in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he has been learning English. Next September, when he comes of kingly age (17), he will formally ascend Thailand's Golden Lotus Throne...
...took the cheers-I heard the pleas-which tried to ascend the wall of tragic and unnatural silence behind which the French people are imprisoned, which were directed toward the President of the United States-and toward the American nation. The French are enormously grateful to the American people-"for being chic, you know, for showing, et si largement, to the best man that they knew how to appreciate his merits. . . ." As the French see it, the American people have made a gesture of friendship for France in electing their President, their first-and last-friend...
...took Albania, which gave him a jumping-off place on the far side. Thence an Italian Army, unless it meets opposition from the forces of some real power, could make its way through Greece, or via Monastir in Yugoslavia to Salonika. From that point it could either ascend the Vardar River Valley towards Nish, or if that route is blocked by Hitler, make its way into Bulgaria up the Struma and Maritsa Valleys, or along the coast toward the Dardanelles...