Word: hari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before getting anywhere. Even sweet bands like Sammy Kaye were broke, but didn't bellyache. The show business demands an eye for an eye, and Shaw, after having fired the musicians that stuck to him in the thin days, decided that the role of a Hamletian martyr committing public hari-kari was better than facing the music of a non-tinkling cash register...
These malefactors were small potatoes in the international game of espionage. Had they been large potatoes their capture would likely have been kept secret. Certainly Nina, though similarly beauteous and professionally equipped, was no Mata Hari (Eye of the Morning). That curvesome celebrity of World War I did business in official secrets on a grand scale. Maltreated Dutch wife of a bibulous Scottish captain in the Dutch colonial forces, she went on the stage in Paris in 1905, passing as part Javanese, with a performance of muscular bravura learned in Java. She became France's leading courtesan, sought, kept...
...Basil dearly loved to read & write detective stories, led an adventuresome life himself. Son of a late Archbishop of York, he was successively a rancher in Iowa, Prime Minister of Tonga (Friendly Islands), Governor of Great Britain's famed Dartmoor Prison. Highspot of his career; tracking down Mata Hari, whom he described as a dowdy, middle-aged woman devoid of charm...
...Moto's Warning" comes too late-by that time the audience is seated. The shackling of Mr. Lorre to such over-sterile parts is as brutal as his own Oriental hari-kari...
...Firefly" Jeanette MacDonald dances, sings, impersonates a night-spot entertainer, and incidentally rescues her native Spain from the ravages of the rapacious Emperor Napoleon of France by her Mata Hari sleuthing for the local military intelligence. Spain, as all the world knows, was overrun by Napoleon's armies, and subsequently rescued, amid much tumult and shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought...