Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always "The Sergeant." At the beginning of the War he gave up his seat in the Chamber and enlisted as a private. He lost a leg at Verdun, and realizing that after the War he would value the votes of thousands of poilus, refused to accept any promotion beyond a sergeant's stripes. Always immaculately dressed, formidable champion of the French militarists, Sergeant Maginot carried his sabre-rattling beyond politics. Despite his wooden leg he was an excellent fencer. France buried him last week with all the funeral honors she had bestowed on Marshal Foch. In the church...
...numbness, being trundled out of the post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter, pieced out the story further. A Mennonite minister who had been addressing mail when...
There is an irritating monotony of scene and absence of any dramatic tempo throughout the picture. Lewis Stone, one of our favorites, takes the part of the head of the German secret agents, yet he is never permitted to step beyond the portals of a drab office room. Lionel Barrymore, one of Hollywood's foremost character actors has little opportunity to do more than pluck nervously at his moustache...
...shot: Juliette Compton saying "Don't let me die!" to Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before the picture is over. Miss Gaynor and her accomplice will be on the brink of matrimony. They have become...
Last week Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo of the New York Supreme Court granted an injunction against the further New York sale of "The Strange Career" on petition of O'Brien who claimed that Hamill and Roth had stolen his idea and data. Looking beyond the Law Judge Cotillo remarked...