Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anything and everything, short only of an expeditionary force . . . must be sent to Britain to defeat Hitler . . . the Beast of Berlin," he cried. And again, his voice hoarse with intensity: "I say to you . . . it is time to stop appeasing Japan or any other aggressor nation...
...Army has exploded the myth of German invincibility and shattered the illusion of the Blitzkrieg. The mad Fascist beast is bleeding profusely...
...Actor Tracy's and Director Victor Fleming's (G.W.T.W.) refusal to play the hoary fable for its horror. They have dressed it up with overtones of Freud in which Tracy's transformation to Hyde is accompanied by symbolic montage shots of a bounding lion (the beast in Hyde); lilies (the purity of luscious Lana Turner, Jekyll's upper-crust fiancee) ; an hourglass (Jekyll's frustration). The result of this phantasmagoria is boredom...
...Since last September he has lived at 10 Downing Street and hardly left his boss's side. He shares Churchill's taste for black cigars, voluminous reading, vigorous talk. He also shared his distrust of the British appeasement group, was known to them as "The Redheaded Beast." As Minister of Information, Bracken has one inestimable advantage. He can be counted on to spring no surprises on his boss...
...pictured animals are always game, supremely important to a folk in a cold climate, ignorant of agriculture, crudely weaponed and without means of storing food. Commonest beast in cave murals is the horse, and bones in prehistoric garbage dumps show the horse was the chief game animal. In all cave art, male figures are far outnumbered by female figures, which were introduced only as symbols of fecundity to insure increase among the deer, bison and mammoths as well as women...