Word: cottonwool
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...chief interest of this easygoing spy picture, as to story, is the spy-work operating slowly, on thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...
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