Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they thrice conquered Spain, 25,000 nomad Berbers have been unable to accept the defeat in 1926 of their leader Abd-el-Krim. Brave, pious, made ferocious by constant pursuit, they have enlisted a mixed crew of bandits and murderers from the mountains, massacred many an unwary French detail. Against them the French have plodded remorselessly under tall, spectacled General Andre Hure who sends home terse casualty lists, plods...
...guns and tactical groups. A pacifist will not find enough horror. . . . Here is the camera record of chaos." There is no running text. Editor Stallings' captions are terse, provocative, sometimes sarcastic. He quotes freely from Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger and Kipling. One could wish for far more detail with each print...
...opportunity is offered to see in detail Lexington Green, where was "fired the shot heard round the world", after which the party goes through the Hancock-Clarke House where Samuel Adams and John Hancock were sleeping when aroused by Paul Revere. This house now contains the valuable collection of the Lexington Historical Society. On the road to Concord there is an opportunity to inspect the Wayside, the home of Hawthorne, and the Orchard House, the home of the Alcotts. After dinner at the Colonial Inn the party proceeds around Concord, visiting the Antiquarian Society, (where is housed the furniture from...
...manner of a substantial citizen of Boston, as well he may, having been for three years in the insurance business (now a Travelers' agent). Happy is his family life with his Wife Betsey, daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. James had much to detail to his father: How the summer house he had rented at Rye Beach, N. H. had been badly damaged by fire three days before while his wife was out to lunch; how the presence of a secret service man to guard his family in his absence had caused the kidnapping rumor...
...will build up suspense for the beginning of Trick for Trick in which the presence of these persons and their eccentric behavior is partially explained. If you arrive at the beginning, you are much less likely to be engrossed by a mystery picture which is utterly routine in every detail except the demands it makes upon Ralph Morgan, who seems faintly ill at ease in the turban and smoking jacket of a melodramatic conjurer Typical shot: a young couple (Sally Blanc and Clifford Jones) embracing at the end on the advice of Azrah who just made himself vanish...