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...part of Mrs. Keith, Claudette Colbert is at last emancipated from the kind of role where she has to choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...
...night had split open into horror and confusion. Men & women trapped in the cars screamed to be let out. Some managed to crawl through smashed windows and stagger aimlessly into the darkness...
...horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
...began going out the hatch. They had to dive down toward the floor, crawl into the canvas funnel and up through the hatch. "We formed a queue as though we were waiting for a bus," said one survivor. The trip to the surface took 40 seconds. After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging. "I was caught on it for about a minute, but it seemed an eternity," he said...
...printing company in town, was bicycling past a big wooden building on his way to his office. At that moment the bomb burst. The building collapsed, spilled into the street. Matsui was buried in the wreckage. His arm was broken and his head deeply gashed, but he managed to crawl from the wreckage, staggered on to his plant half a kilometer away. There, where his great Sogo Printing Co. had stood, he found nothing but ruins...