Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
With Henry's magnificent Crispin's Day speech to his troops on the very edge of the battle, the dramatic highlight of the picture is reached. Showing an astonishing range and power of voice, Olivier gives that gorgeous flood of words everything they deserve. In the battle scene itself, the number of men and horses employed is large but not lavish; yet it should teach Cecil B. DeMille what spectacle can be. The charge of the French chevaliers is one of the most memorable war sequences ever filmed...
...high-quality plane parts for the Army & Navy. It also piled up heaps of news clips by jubilantly giving "associates" (i.e., employes) huge bonuses, free lunches, soft music, Turkish baths, Florida vacations. But the end of the war and the dry-up of the U.S. Government's golden flood was almost the end of Jahco...
...some places native plants have started to come back and this results in a gorgeous flood of purple morning-glories-it reminds me of a little old cemetery in the U.S. which is mellow and not closely pruned. I can't think of a righter place for my husband...
...same pitiful; yet glorious Bernadette whom Franz Werfel portrayed in his best selling novel. The supporting roles are over-acted; the speakers try to convey in each line all the emotion and conflict of the play with the result that the audience is deluged by a flood of bombast that leaves it reeling and listless...