Word: flunkey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show that he is no longer the Falangist flunkey of the Axis, fat Francisco Franco last week...
...favorite theme is the Briton's refusal to let even catastrophe disturb his stout routine. In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that." A lady, calmly knitting in the shelter of the two walls of her house that still stand, replies to a curious passerby: "Yes, since 1940. I wasn't going to let Hitler crow that...
...core of the story is the irreducible faithfulness of Lassie, a fine female collie, for young Roddy McDowall. Lassie is sold by the boy's father, a dole-starved Yorkshireman, to a dog-fancying Duke. She is mistreated by a vicious kennel flunkey and twice breaks out of her kennel to come home. Then Lassie is taken far north into Scotland, escapes again and heads south with the homing infallibility of a pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year...