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...plot is reasonably easy to follow if you bring along a bloodhound and a pocket dictionary of Arab names, which rend the desert air and are damn hard to keep track...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...harried bloodhound, Ray Milland is as surefooted as ever. Laughton falls to with relish on the great chunks of deep-dish villainy that the script feeds him. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton, offscreen) does a good bit of broad comedy as an emancipated artist with four children and no husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Fitzwilliam, N.H., Sheriff Arthur Jennison's lugubrious-looking bloodhound, Queenie, galumphed steadily through the night, led a baffled search party straight to bushes in which its elusive quarry was sitting. The quarry: three-year-old Louis Dunton, who had left home, taken off his clothes and wandered through the woods for six hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...association marked a turning point in Wavell's career. He emerged from the campaign with: 1) an intense admiration for the military genius of Allenby, which later flowered in the biography, Allenby: A Study in Greatness; 2) two hard-won Turkish nicknames -"the desert fox" and "the greatest bloodhound." In a terse footnote in his poetry anthology. Other Men's Flowers, Wavell recalls how Lord Allenby, who had just received news of his son's death in action, quietly recited Rupert Brooke's sonnet, The Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soldier of Peace | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Bloodhound and Ant. An ordinary woman-or man-might have abandoned this recondite search in despair. But the genuine scholar is indefatigable-a combination of bloodhound and ant. Ella Lonn did not forget the problem of the colonial agent. But before returning to it she produced four other books-all scholarly tomes of the kind which are published obscurely but become indispensable source books for other scholars and for popular writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar in America | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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