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...assistants, to a private room in the City Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...
...story of a thousand cattle being driven across 1200 miles of rugged terrain needs expert treatment to maintain a high level of interest without sporadic injections of high-octane melodrama. "The Overlanders" reaches the correct balance between fact and fiction, resulting in a refreshing absence of gun play or fiendish attacks by woolly-headed natives. By careful pruning, the producers have portrayed the grim struggle to save a herd from the Japanese with all its harsh, wearing aspects. A long push to a dried-up water hole comes over as a very real tragedy and the countless flies sticking...
...following usages are a must for anyone handling the Elizabeth Short case. . . . What are the police? Baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced, tightlipped. What is the victim? Beautiful, dark-haired, pretty. . . . What sort of crime is it? Fiendish. How was the body mutilated? Horribly. . . . What are members of the victim's family? Grief-stricken. When they are not baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced or tightlipped, what are the police? Desperate. What is the public at large? Shocked. What does the killer face? The greatest man hunt in Los Angeles history...
...veteran of almost three years overseas-serving with the field artillery in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. I saw American boys killed by weapons invented by these same Nazis we are now catering to. I read of all the civilians killed by these fiendish weapons...
...Lewis timing could not have been more fiendish. Cap Krug, electioneering on the West Coast, hurriedly denied Lewis' charge that Government "misinterpretations" of the contract had cost the miners "millions." Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election...