Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broth of a girl named Susan (Miss Dunne again), accompanying her father, Hiram Porter Dunn (Frank Morgan), on a trip to England. Hiram, a 100% American, dis likes suet puddings, spends most of his time in England fighting over the War of 1812 with a 100% British Colonel (C. Aubrey Smith...
...dined with dreamy, earnest Aubrey Williams, onetime chief of the National Youth Administration, now an organizer for the National Farmers Union. Williams, a frequent White House dinner guest, said he left "with the distinct impression that Mr. Roosevelt wouldn't run again, although he didn't say so directly." Added Mr. Williams: "He looked so tired and worn that I was shocked...
...officers' quarters and called out Captain Aubrey G. Serfling. When the astonished captain appeared, Swancutt shot him in the belly, then dashed through the camp, still firing. Serfling later died. Swancutt pinked Corporal Robert Sampson, leaped into a staff car, waved his .45 at Sergeant John E. Roberts and made the sergeant drive him down the dark road...
Narcotic Imagery. Indigo is so smoothly, written, and its atmosphere of strangeness and narcotic imagery is sustained so effortlessly, that readers may miss the violence of its incidents and the somberness of its message (that the conqueror remains a thwarted exile in the house of the conquered). Engineer Aubrey Wall, who will not seduce Gisele, but who kicks an opium-drugged servant to death, is one Englishman for whom the prewar burden of empire was too much. Examining the canals he had built, "his nervous system suffered a kind of accumulated shock, a reverberation of all the disappointments, dreams, hopes...
Best bit: C. Aubrey Smith, as a Mayfair clergyman, cheerfully commenting on the death of a rich old lady who has left him the jackpot: "Very sad, very...