Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leave Her's heroine is jealous Ellen (Gene Tierney), whose somewhat too-intense love for her husband (Cornel Wilde) leads her to drown his brother, throw herself downstairs, and eventually poison her own coffee. The unhappy story moves through breathtakingly stylish country interiors which make no particular point except to show that the characters have plenty of chintz-upholstered leisure for getting into mischief...
...world. With George A. (Why We Behave Like Human Beings) Dorsey he made the second steamboat trip in history up the Yangtze Gorges to the then inconspicuous city of Chungking. The Chinese along the rim knocked off work and crowded the banks, in a friendly way, "to watch us drown." The Chinese also liked to line up, at a courteous distance, to watch the foreigners handle knives & forks. One suppertime a missionary's wife, annoyed at their staring, slung a glass of water in their faces. Webster, a gentle man, still colors up when he remembers...
...hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves, but he never forgot the COMMON MAN. Sitting on his plantation porch of an evening, he would say: "I still love the COMMON MAN," and, with a jet of tobacco juice slanchwise between the Ionic columns, would drown a doodlebug at five yards. So they called him the SAGE of The Hermitage (his plantation...
...were witnessing history. In Manhattan, as if someone had pulled a giant lever, the windows went up and paper tumbled in torrents, soon after the President's first words were heard. For minutes, a diapason of booming whistles from the grey ships in the North River seemed to drown out everything. Then, as if they might burst unless they let it off, people began to shout...
...weeks Paris weather had been like London-rain nearly every day. The Marne, the Oise and the Seine had risen until André stood hip-deep in water. To watching Parisians it seemed that this time André was doomed to drown in the swollen Seine. Quayside storage spaces, where the precious household goods of bombed-out Parisians were kept, were flooded. The muddy waters spread over suburban areas. Worst of all, there was no longer sufficient space under the bridges for the barges to pass with their precious coal cargoes for Parisians, who felt just as frozen as Andr...