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...gone for good, Mr. Riderhood, it would be something to know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. If you are gone for good, Rogue, it is very solemn, and if you are coming back, it is hardly less so. Nay, in the suspense and mystery of the latter question, involving that of where you may be now, there is a solemnity even added to that of death, making us who are in attendance alike afraid to look...
...anxiously wondered how long the secret could or would be kept. The Smyth report, released by the U.S. War Department (TIME, Aug. 20), had been amazingly frank about production methods. It even hinted at the basic mechanism of the bomb itself-the sudden bringing together of two or more lumps of explosive material to form one lump which is over the "critical size" and which instantly explodes. The possibility that the secret might be discovered by some other nation creates no immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist...
...Church clergymen, farmers, shopkeepers, each with his wife and family, all passionately involved in the everyday affairs and intrigues of an English cathedral town. It is, said Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a great admirer of Trollope, "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its in habitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of." But readers who do not buy Doubleday's expensive edition of this famed novel will find equal satisfaction...
...doomed to die from one of those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump instead of a laugh in its throat...
...Laraine Day, an impressionable girl. She lives with a mother (Ann Harding) whose memories of her own blighted romance make her at first fear for her daughter, then urge her to go ahead and take her chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends to be torn away by sudden orders, purely for the purpose of setting a fire under the balky heroine...