Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real shocker was a supine human skeleton, varnished with gleaming gilt paint, dazzlingly berobed and tenderly laid out to impersonate one Kuo Ch'in Wang, a Ch'ing Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes from the Ch'ing Dynasty courts, 1644 to 1911, which variously seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator...
...conduct this enlarged recondition- ing program, the Army has built extensive facilities at its new Camp Edwards base. Several playing fields, an enclosed sports arena, a swimming pool, and 16 remedial gymnasiums are among the many features of the new plant. This base serves only casualties from the First Service Command. The Navy, the Marines, and the Army Air Corps maintain separate facilities for their wounded...
They were marched for miles in company with Greek civilian hostages, head ing north in straggling columns over snow-covered roads. Some civilians, who dropped of exhaustion, were left...
...London, 1902). And very good melodrama it is. Ella Raines, Stanley Ridges and Henry Daniell are excellent respectively as Wife No. 2, the calmly cruel sleuth, and a neighbor who blackmails his way to death. Rosalind Ivan is satisfactorily terrifying as the Gorgon-like Wife No. 1. Sloping, suffer ing Charles Laughton has a high old histrionic time and gives the audience one -in one of his best roles since he played a similar mousy murderer in Payment Deferred...
Navy Liberators from the MacArthur command ranged as far as Formosa, seek ing out forces which the Japs might be moving south for defense of Luzon...