Word: gunness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, the Cabinet (with only two absent), Chief Justice Hughes all followed Franklin Roosevelt in handshaking General Somoza & wife at the station. The artillery banged a 21-gun salute. With 15 tanks in front, 15 behind, the Presidential car led a parade up to the Capitol, around its plaza, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Franklin Roosevelt had assured the presence of throngs by having all Federal employes excused from work from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. Military strictness prevailed. Officers wore their medals & decorations. The only two pressmen (one reporter, one cameraman) permitted...
What love interest there is in the story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...peddling verse and carpets, he wrote several novels and biographies, prefers not to be reminded of them. Payment Deferred, his grim study in murder, was a success on the stage and screen (it started Charles Laughton on his career), but did not sell well as a book. The Gun, an adventure story of the Peninsular War, and The African Queen, a story of a virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately. His best book, The General, a subtle attack on stuffed-shirt generals, sold 1,935 copies...
...park talking Chinese poetry during a Japanese air raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...
...Rice appears as the owner of the state line, and provides the romantic element. However, our Bob has learned to put business before pleasure and it is only after he has settled accounts with Beery that he succumbs to the charms of Susan. Seasoned as it is with occasional gun-play, the film makes a digestible ocular meal...