Word: holster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa looks like a fat pistol holster, and about where the lower extremity of the butt would nestle lies the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. This little nook of Empire has suddenly become important-because of its only port...
...Wyoming," is a Western, fundamentally like all other Westerns past, present, and future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...
...dickens do you think you are doing here?' but of course he didn't understand me. Then I noticed that he had a revolver and by pointing indicated that I wanted it. He handed it over at once but I did not take it out of the holster nor did I threaten him with...
...first hand to a shoulder-holster would cause lead to fly in the scarred and scared old Mediterranean world...