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Word: guardists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agent Donat arrives by parachute, spends a few minutes disguised as a Rumanian peasant, then transforms himself into Tartu, a Rumanian Iron Guardist, reeking with pomade, corny gallantries and devotion to the New Order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...darling of several Nazi big shots, by an incisively cast crowd of Nazis, saboteurs and undergrounders, and by pacing as shrewdly varied as that of a roller coaster. Miss Hobson, besides being a sensible actress, is one cinemactress who can really be described as beautiful. As the gigolesque Iron Guardist, rococo Robert Donat turns in one of the best performances of his career. All Tartu needs, to be a classic of its kind, is the sort of razor-edged melodramatic and psychological inventiveness which belongs to Alfred Hitchcock in strict monopoly and has been conferred on a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Rumanians heard how ex-King Carol had behaved when the eleven-car special train on which he fled ran a gantlet of pro-Nazi Iron Guardist gunfire at Timisoara railroad station. Carol had jumped into a bathtub while bullets smashed windows (see cut), killed an engineer, wounded the station master. At the same time, Carol's former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu had flung his foppish self under a table. Beyond the frontier Carol gave the train crew $2 apiece. One man refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...last week the Spanish Government had apparently reached no decision on the Rumanian Government's request that Mme. Lupescu and ex-Lord Chamberlain Udarianu be sent back to Bucharest to stand trial, respectively, for the "murder" of No. 1 Iron Guardist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the looting of the Rumanian treasury. The Rumanian "party" were apparently still under genteel Spanish detainment. Carol had been invited to Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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