Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is concerned with the ultimate capture of a fiend who murders Miss Grable's sister (Carole Landis), a hash-house honey whom Mr. Mature, a lowbrow sports promoter, inadvertently promotes right out of his life to Hollywood. Everyone gets what is coming...
When this girl, this brainy fiend, wasn't reading she was talking about books and authors that Vag Knew nothing about. About James Farrell and Steinbeck, and W. H. Auden and MacNeice. (MacNeice? MacNeice? Never heard of him. But Steinbeck wrote "Of Mice and Men" and he had seen that in the movies.) About Dreiser and Dostoevski and Proust and Flaubert and Sterne and someone named George Borrow. Vag felt dumber and dumber. He hadn't known there were so many damn authors in the world he hadn't read. About Gide. Vag thought he was the bird who wrote...
...this is part of a selfish, thoroughly practical form of U.S. aid-to-Britain. The Army pilots assigned to delivery duty are members of a new Army Ferry Command. Under the U.S. Army's famed Colonel Robert Olds, a big-bomber fiend who started out as a private in World War I, this organization has complete responsibility for delivering all U.S.-made British aircraft in Canada. While speeding up deliveries, the new system will also give Army pilots priceless experience in flying big bombers. Because so many U.S. bombers are going to Great Britain, the Army itself is woefully...
...cast up at the feet of a Welsh child named Hoöl. Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...
...What was that they said in Congress the other day? "If it ever becomes necessary for us to fight, we will fight! A country whose boys will not go out and fight to save Christianity and the principles of freedom from the ruthless destruction of a fiend, well, you won't find such boys in America." That's what Senator Austin said. Wonder if Johnny read...