Word: dawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Bedsheets. Of all European countries, France was most enthusiastic in welcoming tourists and foreign exchange. Railways were mending their torn roadbeds, the glamorous Blue Train to the Riviera was back in service, nightclubs now got enough electricity to stay open till dawn, and the municipality of Nice grandly announced: "Our hotels are ready, our guests will lack neither bedsheets nor tablecloths." But about half of France's hotels were still closed, and many of the rest were filled with Frenchmen who wanted a vacation themselves. The beaches of Normandy and Brittany were still dotted with maverick German mines...
...sight in the U.S. as it was a generation ago). Next door other workmen were putting a new face on St. Patrick's. Down the street, the sign on the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas said that Dr. Joseph Sizoo would preach the next Sunday on "When Dawn Comes...
With a British subsidy to help, Abdullah had found life in Trans-Jordan tolerable enough. He rises at crack of dawn each day and at 7 o'clock drives in his lemon-colored limousine to an office in the center of Amman. There for two hours he works. Then he returns to his gaudy palace on one of Amman's five hilltops and reads Arabic poetry. After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive...
...deals with the night before the Battle of Agincourt. It is also the most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot be done...
Last week Linhares was still in the Copacabana. He had stayed out of airplanes, appeared in good health, had not hired a cook. Said one taxi driver: grateful ex-Cook Rosa must be blessing Linhares' fingernail parings, sacrificing white chickens at dawn-working a countet-macumba...