Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleonic Wars: the romance of the great one-eyed, one-armed sea dog, Horatio, Lord Nelson (Laurence Olivier), and the frivolous Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh), wife of Britain's Minister to the Court of Naples. Ostensibly, this British-bred, Hollywood-made film tries to tell it in epic tones. Actually, with the subtlety of a sock on the jaw, it is more concerned with informing U. S. cinemaudiences of the parallel between Britain's struggle against Napoleonic tyranny and her current tangle with Hitler...
...Express and the first railroad had made several western trips on the screen, it remained for some producer to string the first continental telegraph. "Western Union" serves this purpose, without doing much more than that. Replete with Indians, bison, love interest and a dudish Harvard graduate, it is hardly epic, but does provide a pleasantly wool-tingling story...
...squash team got over the first of its two big hurdles in intercollegiate play by turning back the seven-man Princeton squad 4 to 3 at Princeton Saturday. The other important opponent is Yale, and the rest of the Harvard intercollegiate schedule merely consists of dress rehearsals for that epic duel. For example, Dartmouth had a fine squash team this year, and in the words of its coach, Red Hoehn, "had a good chance to beat Harvard at last." The result was an 8 to 1 pasting absorbed by the Green in their own back yard. Williams was gobbled...
...these young upstarts tales that will amaze them, tales of the early life of Spilbert the Great, and his double, Alkalaw. We will relate the story of their Great Uprising, and the fall that followed. We can sketch their fools, too numerous to name. Yes, it will make an epic, Inchball, if you help...
...Division of Britain's High Court one day last week. Fifteen of them were survivors of the British tanker San Demetrio, veterans of the Jervis Bay convoy (TIME, Nov. 25); the other, a representative of a dead comrade. What they had to add to the saga was as epic as the battle itself...