Word: laden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemingway wrote it. Then an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) noses in on the inexplicable killing. His research takes him to the dead Swede's beneficiary, an Atlantic City chambermaid (Queenie Smith), to a Philadelphia detective (Sam Levene) and, with their help, through more & more plot-laden flashbacks of ringside and gangster life...
...faces of the stodgy, soot-laden houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines were idle. From the town rose loved Welsh songs like Jenny Jones, Men of Harlech and the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau-meaning Land of My Fathers...
...Part II events move downward, and the drama becomes muffled and intermittent. Hotspur lies slain by Hal; the rebels are betrayed and broken; guilt-laden Henry, who had usurped Richard II's crown, sickens and dies; Falstaff roisters now without his Prince, "Who-when he becomes his King-brutally dismisses him. Only for Hal does glory lie ahead...
...tongues, the bases bought with blood and fire continued to deteriorate. At Wake Island, undergoing its third build-up in five years (first by the U.S., then by the Japs, now by the U.S. again), there was not enough paint to protect the mushrooming Quonsets from the gnawing, salt-laden...
...knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...