Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exciting a situation as can be imagined and, for obvious reasons, to derive full value from the material it became desirable actually to produce the picture in London and, if possible, with the cooperation of the Brigade of Guards. Because of the nature of the material, we anticipated a cold refusal by the latter. To our surprise, full consent was given with certain stipulations that were readily accepted by us ... As one result of the Guards' participation in making the film, our Conspirator audiences will see a famous Guards' regiment in a military formation similar to that which...
...learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...
...presented himself at the house of a Burmese dignitary. He was met by a bevy of lovely Burmese girls carrying bowls of water, who said a few words in their native tongue. Anxious to be agreeable, the Briton nodded, whereupon the maidens deluged him, from topper to spats, with cold water. The master of the house laughed & laughed...
Varsity coach Jack Barnaby didn't get a chance to see his team's sparkling performance, for a bad cold kept him in bed. In Barnaby's absence, freshman coach Corey Wynn handled the team...
...Panova's characters is the old party rank & filer, now a commissar with a bleak smile and cold eye, who finds himself bewildered because, though he knows he shouldn't be, he is unhappy. Another is an ugly, peevish, middle-aged nurse secretly in love with feeble Dr. Suprugov. The doctor himself, a weak, cunning, vain, lying, frightened creature, might have come out of Chekhov...