Word: hampdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain gave more than it took. In bombing sweeps over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...
...many stories about him, and some things which need not be mentioned lightly here. What was most interesting about him was the diligence with which he pursued the way of life which was most comfortable to him. Every morning he left his dark bachelor's quarters in the Hampden on Plympton Street. It took him fifteen minutes to reach the Waldorf, what with the day's greetings to give and receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After...
...well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button...
...lesser decorations, but the Victoria Cross is awarded sparingly, only for "conspicuous bravery . . . in the presence of the enemy." Last week were awarded the seventh, eighth and ninth V.C.s of World War II, for deeds of extraordinary daring: Acting Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd, 27, pilot of one of five Hampden bombers assigned on Aug. 12 to destroy a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. His story...
...Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran actors as Walter Hampden, Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber (very sinister as a saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel...