Word: burrowings
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Against the sordid backgrounds of an anonymous big U.S. city, the film deftly introduces its main characters one by one, starts to develop them with quick strokes while linking them together into the burglary plot. It gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
...flash decision. Already the author of a lively biography of William Tecumseh Sherman (1932), Lewis had been collecting research on Grant for a dozen years. At Libertyville, freed from the grind of daily journalism, 54-year-old Lloyd Lewis began to burrow into his mound of notes...
Cornwall's huntsmen stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said...
...Colin Craven-Sands thought highly of British fox hunting. "I had seen pictures of hunting scenes," he remembers, "and I liked the pretty dress worn by hunting folk." Shortly after taking up his duties in a small Cornwall parish, Mr. Craven-Sands one day saw the local Four Burrow Hunt bring a fox to ground. What he thought he saw and heard changed his mind about fox hunting...
...rabbit shall burrow and the thorn revisit...