Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-known hospitality of your letters column to all political points of view will, I am sure, extend to this brief attempt to answer the letter of Mrs. Virginia Jones in your November 14th issue...
There, six weeks ago, the executive committee of the R.P.F. held the most fateful meeting in its brief history. Most of the twelve men were smoking and the air was a thick blue haze. De Gaulle smokes like a chimney in moments of stress; so do his political theorist, Novelist Andre Malraux (Man's Fate, Man's Hope} , and his chief administrator, swarthy, bespectacled Jacques Soustelle. Charles de Gaulle said, "Messieurs, je vous écoute" (Gentlemen, I am listening...
...scheme of "Tawny Pipit,"--a continual harping upon the "old English virtues" of fair play and hospitality, and an incessant probing to reveal that English life is good and decent and superior--epitomizes the disturbing introversion in British cinema. Begin with "In Which We Serve," and recall "Brief Encounter," "Blithe Spirit," "The Years Between," "Stairway to Heaven," or "I Know Where I'm Going," and the same preoccupation with British life and people, British mores and traits, and above all British virtues evidences itself. Even the fine film "The Captive Heart" about prisoners of war in Germany, is really...
...flamboyant Express at 29. In his first year, 1933, he raised the circulation 160,000, made the Express the world's biggest daily. And he has kept it there ever since. Into a four-page paper, Christiansen and his editors pack as many as 70 brisk, brief, breezy news stories, as well as pictures and features. They highlight them with tricky typography (when the "Ink Spots" quartet visited London recently, the headline was four ink blots...
Thorpe Club members, who will argue for the appellants, are George I. Meisel, and Paul N. Temple, Lawrence C. Dargan, Jr., Robert Krones, Saul G. Marias, and Charles H. Oldfather, Jr., have written the brief. The Taney Club will represent the appellees. Leonard K. Simmer has written the brief, and Robert W. Culbert and James F. Lovett will argue...