Word: claxon
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...solemn march south, down Route 1 between the South China Sea and the stark, lovely silhouettes of the Annamite chain to the west. Trucks piled high with baskets, furniture and clothes were packed with 50 and 60 people in the rear. An army deuce-and-a-half rolled by, claxon blaring, three dozen faces peering from the back and five more Vietnamese sitting on the hood. Three old Citroëns, looking like something out of an old French police thriller, glided silently by with no fewer than 20 Vietnamese inside. For the ride from Hué to Danang, these...
...Britain, the minister himself takes on this judicial function and polices his own department. Though he was once responsible to Parliament for his conduct, the party system ended that. Only the remote possibility that he would harm the party's success in the next general claxon would deter his abuses...
Fredric March with his solid, unruffled disposition makes a neat and finished sketch of the brooding Heyst; Sir Cedric Hardwicke is as sinister as a haunted house with his bland, cobra-like Mr. Jones; Jerome Cowan, mouthing claxon-like Cockney accents, draws an ugly but adept picture of a psychopathic killer; sparrow-voiced Betty Field turns the mousy Alma into a heroine with dimensions. But it is an actor's movie. There is never any real suspense in a story where suspense is the hallmark...
...complete revised cast follows. Tom Brown G. B. Bingham '28 Gerald Thorne K. A. Perry '28 Wilfred Kenyon S. B. McGavaran '28 Claxon Madden D. W. Moreland '28 John Cartwright S. S. Korzeiuk '29 Tubby Anderson H. L. Kozol '27 Happy Thurston R. C. Darling '29 Barnard Edward Morley '29 Coyne F. H. Rahr '29 Ellis R. B. Gowing '29 Reynolds R. J. Bove '29 Bud Hall G. G. Ackerson '27 Codrington C. D. Gowing '28 Old Clothes Man Edward Welton '26 O'Hara Burke Rivers '29 First Crew Man Mark Winkler '28 Second Crew Man R. W. Burgevin...
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