Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denoting a trademark which it is. (It's like saying joe doakes, smoking a camel, drove off in his ford to buy some listerine.) On p.92, in an item about a spy movie, you refer to "hidden dictaphones" when you mean a secret listening device. Well, Dictaphone just isn't that kind of machine and Dictograph, a trademarked voice-transmitting device, isn't really used by criminal investigators, local or federal, to overhear remote conversations. (They usually have their own small delicate apparatus privately built for them...
United States does precisely that. With Cinemactor David Niven, now a lieutenant colonel in the British Army, acting as narrator, it shows first New York, which "isn't America," then traces U.S. history from the landing at Plymouth, through the Revolution, the Civil War, the settling of the West, winding up with a panorama of the current U.S. scene. Typical of the tone that makes United States so successful is the commentary on the Revolution: "The men of Washington's Army were no longer British subjects resisting the armed forces of their king. They were Americans, fighting...
...becoming a museum piece," he said. "And what if some marines should land on Dewey Boulevard and Manila John isn't among them...
...second place, I am wondering whether you realize how your feelings may change in time. . . . What I mean is that a glass of vino at a local farm is better than nothing, but it isn't better than a pint of beer at the Old Red Cow, is it? Has anybody told you how quickly these Mediterranean women get ugly and old-looking? Maybe you are feeling that I think you are going to do something for which you will be sorry later on. You're right...
...There was only one way out for you, to sentence me without trial. . . . The Germans must be very exacting masters. Isn't it your Minister of Justice who said: 'They drive us by kicks in the ass.' . . . I leave you with these words: 'I will be waiting for you at the downfall of the forces of the axe.' It is the most marvelous revenge and also the only reparation that a Frenchman may desire who up to his last breath had only one religion-that of his country...