Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinary depth and quality of this film render a coldly anylitical review impossible. Although it also has a masterful plot, perhaps the finest parts of "Grand Illusion" are a few individual scenes. For instance, on the eve of a German victory celebration, the prisoners give a revue and invite the German officers who are guarding them. In the middle of the show, Gabin hears the news the Allies have finally won this battle. He rushes on the stage, roars out the good news, and all the prisoners rise and sing the "Marsaillaise." The German officers stomp out, and Gabin...
York Corner is two miles from the Atlantic Ocean at York Harbor, now a popular summer resort and the locale of one of the finest beaches on the Maine coast. Charles Plaisted was born in his father's home on nearby Cider Hill and, like him, became a farmer and a Democrat. He has voted in every Presidential election since 1872 (Ulysses S. Grant v. Horace Greeley). He married the girl next door, and they were together for 64 years until she died. Although his nephews now run the 125-acre dairy farm, "Uncle Charlie" insists on doing...
Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...
...fulfillment of these two aims lies the greatness of Mrs. Coolidge's life work. Under the auspices of the Foundation, the world's finest musicians have been able to present to attentive audiences music of their own choice whose special appeal would generally exclude it from the concert-manager system. Alexander Schneider's performances throughout the country, as well as at Harvard, of Bach's Six Snotaas for Unaccompanied Violin are examples of her impartial patronage. --Herbert P. Gleason
Last week, in front of Jogjakarta's nameless hotel, the people no longer shouted friendly greetings; they had only glum, sullen stares for white men. Said a Dutch official: "Indonesians, like the Dutch, would rather live in a leaky sod hut of their own than in the finest foreign-built building. Will Indonesians have another building of their own? Now they are not sure. When they come to trust us to give them independence, as we promised, they will work with...