Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army officers at the prisoner of war camp at Houlton, Me., were wondering last week what was going to happen to 67 Russians who recently arrived with a batch of Nazis...
...iron broom. He found one in the persons of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Supreme High Command, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a Prussian and a Junker. As head of a newly created Military Court of Honor, the two Field Marshals last week reported their first batch of Army sweepings: four of their fellow officers executed; four dead by suicide; two "deserted to the Bolsheviki"; twelve slated for "elimination" from the Army; many more about to be tried...
...with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea for letting youth, inexperience and lonely soldiers do as much for every U.S. home...
Supposedly "starring" Maria Montez in a unique but hardly revolutionary role an her own twin sister, Hollywood seems to have burned out another goodly batch technicolor film on the old and oh-so-familiar South Sea Isle set. To be complimentary, honorable mention should be given to the trained monkey and glassy-eyed snake for outstanding performances...
Dilly-Doily. In Bogota, N.J., sidewalk superintendents watched two steeple jacks climb 750 feet to repair the smokestacks of the Continental and Federal Paper Co., wondered as one of them began to embroider a doily while waiting for a fresh batch of cement, eventually discovered they were lady steeple jacks...