Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like her brother, L. M. Giannini,* the bank's president, Claire Giannini grew up in the shadow of fiery old A.P., who thought of little else except his business. As a child she traveled extensively with him, soaked up politics and economics. She attended Oakland's Mills College for two years, then became A.P.'s private secretary...
...Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float in a Mardi Gras parade...
...Bismarck, which fought like fury when she was finally cornered, did not want to fight at all. Her escort was the powerful heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but they had no destroyer screen and could expect no help from the rest of the German fleet. Their task was to hit Allied shipping and run. In foul weather, the Bismarck and her cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening...
...heroes, beautiful women, villainous (and noble) redskins, shocking rapes and seductions and massacres, as well as action everywhere and all the time. If readers tired of the floggings, the snakes, the brains splattered on the deck, the hussies driving strong men to distraction, they were compensated by vivid scenes, like the passage of the ironclad Arkansas through the Union fleet at Vicksburg...
...proportions of a cinema scenario. Part of it is that the flamboyance and stage effects of the earlier books do not mix with the doings of backwoods storekeepers or squabbles over right-of-way. But the deeper trouble is that Author Street's view of history, like that of most contemporary historical novelists, does not produce much of dramatic interest when applied to events after the Civil...