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...roles have been more sympathetically played, however, than Joan Fontaine as Prudence Cathaway, a very human daughter of a frigid and aristocratic British family. Her enlistment in the WAAF and her subsequent love for Clive are convincing where it would be easiest to become theatrical. Thomas Mitchell as the faithful Monty shares with Miss Fontaine the acting honors of the film. In his blind faith for England and his earthy view of life, he is as true to the spirit of the book as Tyrone Power is false...

Author: By C. F. N. i., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

...spotted a timid little fellow, with tiny sprouts under his nose, and nervous eyes behind rimless glasses. This was the spitting image of Mr. Pettengill, the most learned and conscientious teacher in Central Junior High, and the easiest, too, Vag reminisced fondly. Wanted to be a big professor some day, but just couldn't get placed, somehow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 6/26/1942 | See Source »

Malta's stubborn defenders like to joke about the time when Old Dob Dob, sent to restore order during the Arab-Jewish riots in Palestine in 1928, said: "This will be the easiest war. . . . We will have to fight only four days a week. The Arabs won't fight on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and Dobbie certainly won't on Sunday." No Sabbatarians, the Luftwaffe forced Sir William to fight on many a Sunday, deepened his conviction that Naziism means nihilism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Tiger for Old Dob Dob | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...think that the idea is being understood more than ever before what would happen if any part of the Hemisphere were dominated by a successful Germany. We wouldn't live the same kind of lives - that is the easiest way of putting it. Because that new- not the old German civilization- that new German civilization is so totally different from what all of us have been accustomed to since we were born. I shudder to think of what would happen to any part of the Hemisphere that came under German domination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word for War | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...world fighting a war of speed, a paralyzed nation, no matter how brave, cannot win victories. China knows this, the Allies know it-and the Allies also know that the easiest way to beat Japan may eventually be an attack through China. And so the Allies are doing all they can to help China keep herself alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Burma Road in the Sky? | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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