Word: gehenna
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Blonde Venus (Paramount) presents a new excuse for Marlene Dietrich to play a bad woman. Excuse: sick husband. The picture graphs her degeneration. Excuse: mother-love. Toward the end, having left husband & child behind, she rises fast, her motto being "Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, he travels fastest who travels alone." She completes the cycle in the arms of husband & child...
...Then there had better be no more parades," blurts the old soldier. But there are more parades, of that kind. Tietjens' integrity sees him through and furthers a movement (for the "single command") that is to turn the War's tide. Tietjens comes out of a moral Gehenna victorious...
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LIGHT of my eyes and constant solace of my soul, many a time has the humblest of your slaves meant to draw aside the curtain of his being to you; but, although he has been silent while among these dogs of Giaours (whom may the Prophet roast in Gehenna !) he has not ceased to think of his Beeghaz, for how truly has our divine poet Hafiz* said...