Word: martyring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love...
After a brief dedication to the late Brigadier General "Billy" Mitchell, evangelist and martyr of the air-power cause (who would have given his right arm for a movie like Victory to carry his message to the people), the film swings into a lighthearted cartoon history of aviation, starting in 1903 with the Wright Brothers' first powered flight (12 seconds...
...Aged (77) Marshal Emilio De Bono, a bumbler who was the first Army general to join Mussolini's "March on Rome." He was head of Government police when Italy's socialist martyr, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered just 19 years...
...Bishop of Strängnäs (near Stockholm) paid a public tribute to his brother imprisoned in the Oslo cottage: "Berggrav's spirit has gone free through closed doors and has witnessed that God's words bear no chains. He and Norway's martyr Church are living testimonies . . . that no violent power can annihilate the life borne by God's spirit...
Peril & Prestige. Visitors from India reported British prestige at its lowest point in recent history. The British can scarcely afford to allow Gandhi to die and become a martyr-the consequences would be unpredictable, and they might be fatal to British rule. As for the fasting Mahatma, he was again demonstrating, along with his appeal to millions of Indians, his shrewd sense of politics and his ability to regain prestige on fruit juice, water and an unquenchable spirit...