Word: clubfooted
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...many imps of spleen and spite have ever gotten under the armored skin of President von Hindenburg. But once a little clubfoot in his Nazi newsorgan taunted Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg with age, attacked him under the headline IS VON HINDENBURG STILL ALIVE?, charged without a scrap of evidence that "his advisers are Jews and Marxists." That was in 1930. The President, stung to rage as never before, brought suit and was awarded 800 marks ($185) for defamation from the imp who is now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Last week by a supreme...
Director John Cromwell's version of Maugham's novel starts when Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) learns in Pans that he is a mediocre painter, makes up his mind to study medicine in London. Near the end of the picture Carey under goes an operation which cures his clubfoot. Director Cromwell and Lester Cohen, who adapted the story, took the intelligent course of deviating as little as possible from Somerset Maugham's narrative. Therefore the most memorable and important part of Of Human Bondage remains Philip's attachment for Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis), the waitress who turns...
...MYSTERY OF THE GOLD Box?Valentine Williams?Houghton Mifflin ($2). The British Secret Service again diligently fights Old Clubfoot, for the papers in that snuff...
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week. They just stand. Shoes go by, precise shoes, sprawling de- liberate shoes, hobbledehoys, clubfoot, no sock and bunions; narrow slippers that do their walking in limousines. New men take their eyes off the floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent...