Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was indeed a faint glimmer of enlightenment over the U.N.'s General Assembly last week, and more than an occasional flicker of fraternity. All the week's major subjects were old quarrels, inevitably disinterred, but the U.N. Assemblymen approached them with new determination to have another go at the world's endless agenda of discord...
Last week in Ottawa a jury convicted Gerson of conspiring to communicate state secrets to Soviet Russia. He was the sixth defendant convicted in the spy case. With no visible flicker of feeling he listened to Justice G. F. McFarland's scathing words: "I am not going to lecture you. You are too intelligent, even brilliant, not to understand fully why you are here." The sentence: five years in Kingston Penitentiary...
...posturing crackpot of the war crimes, Rudolf Hess. He brushed aside the headphones which would have brought him the German translation of Justice Lawrence's sentence in English: life imprisonment. Not by a flicker of an eyelash did fox-chinned Hess betray surprise at the clemency he had received. The mill ground...
...brought Madame de Gaulle to dine with us. . . .I realized at once . . . that I would never know him, that here was a man whom it would be impossible to call a friend. ... No flicker of interest lifted his hooded eyelids. . . . When I looked full at him I saw nothing, nothing but a lifeless figure, wrapped in a palpable coldness that hid him as a damp cloth hides a sculptor's clay...
Harpo, who is somewhat restrained in this flicker, has one or two excellent scenes. His pantomimic ability reaches its zenith in a sequence with Punch and Judy. Chico and Zeppo distribute themselves capably, though their comic action hardly approaches that of their more gifted brothers...