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Boyer plays the Little Corporal in the manner every actor under five feet ten has always dreamt of playing him. He pulls his forelock down, sticks out his upper lip, and shows a paunch (artificial). Magnificently he drives into Poland where, changing horses at a village near Marie's estate, he gets his first look at her. Count Walewski (Henry Stephenson) does not much care for the plan that his wife trade on the Emperor's interest to help Poland, but she tries it anyhow. When she interrupts Napoleon's ardors with a patriotic supplication, the Emperor...
With his horn-rim spectacles and pendant forelock, Floyd Odium looks like a hardworking young bank clerk. But the long, sharp face and steady gaze are those of a canny trader. Few can match Floyd Odium's record of creating a $110,000,000 business in the midst of Depression. Born at Union City, Mich, to an improvident Methodist minister, he made his first profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned...
...have," replied the foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
...Representatives. There was no objection, for the Honorable Braswell Drue Deen of Alma, who at this session has wangled from his party leaders a total of only eight minutes speaking time, had just been promised two minutes more by Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. Seizing time by the forelock Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session of the 74th Congress. . . ." Applause. ''More than 20 of our colleagues-26 to be exact...
Engineer Mussert has the stocky, powerful figure of Napoleon, the unruly forelock of Hitler, and his name begins with the same letters as Mussolini. If Queen Wilhelmina would let members of his N. S. B. wear distinctive "political shirts," Engineer Mussert has said that they would be not brown but black. He talks about installing in the Netherlands a version of Il Duce's Corporative State with buxom Queen Wilhelmina shrunk in political size to match peewee Victor Emanuel...