Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to painting. He also killed a number of men in drunken street brawls, was once found near-dead himself, with a long dagger in his back. For a whim, he recklessly scaled the dizzy dome of St. Peter's in Rome, and carved his initials on the lantern that had been left there by Michelangelo. Soon after, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition for breaking into a convent and trying to kidnap...
...which they had recently been liberated. His remarks were a grudging tribute to the effectiveness of Nazi teaching methods. A considerable number of Belgian youngsters, said M. Buisseret, had been infected with Naziism during the occupation because of the Nazis' remarkably persuasive teaching. A set of 8,000 lantern slides and 300 movies were circulated from a central exchange in Germany. Nazi supervisors also brought in other attractive visual aids, including maps, brochures, brightly colored charts, exhibits...
...being an absorbing and notable picture. Its story: a Russian paratrooper (Paul Muni) and a Partisan girl (Marguerite Chapman), seeking vital data about the location of enemy troops, are trapped with eight German soldiers in the basement of a shelled factory. The two Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their peasant shrewdness and stubborn ness against German craft and arrogance, and conducting an increasingly...
...Wonder of the 1920s, lantern-jawed, shiny-haired Jed Harris (now 45) chalked up a record which probably no Broadway producer has equaled since: four successive smash hits (Broadway, Coquette, The Royal Family, The Front Page) in less than two years. At the age of 28 he had (counting road companies) seven productions on the boards at once, and an income of $40,000 a week...
...father was the son of a wealthy landowner of Lebanon. He was born in Bsherri, a 4,000-year-old village high in the Lebanon Mountains, on Jan. 6, 1883. On Christmas Eve every human being in the village walked through the snow to church, carrying a lighted lantern. At midnight the bells began, and children and old men sang an ancient Galilean chant. They spoke in Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Kahlil said later that on three different occasions he had seen...