Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unanimous rulings of suicide from State Police pathologists, specially summoned experts, and the District Attorney closed the book last night on the death of Miss Frances Flint, whose bloodstained stripped body was found Thursday evening in Wayland Woods...
Revised testimony of friends of the deceased, as well as her physician, Dr. James H. Townsend, indicated that Miss Flint had been under treatment for a hyper-nervous condition several weeks before her death, and had manifested considerable strain and anxiety...
...roommate, Puerto Rican Miss Margarita Silva-Santiago, pointed out that her friend was "in a terribly nervous condition. She had fallen back in her studies because of fear of not passing...
Flora Robson carries the message of the picture as she gradually comes to realize that Naziism is not "in the blood" of Frieda, the fraulein whom her nephew married to repay for helping him escape from a German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...
...aura of hostility greets Frieda when she arrives in Denfield before the war has even ended. Miss Robson as Aunt Nora, a "cold, logical woman," realizes that her chances to gain a seat in the House of Commons are ruined if she condones her nephew's marriage to a German. Publically she proclaims that all Germans are alike and thus voices the belief of most others as well. But privately she tells Frieda that in six months nine-tenths of the community would come to accept her but there would always be the other tenth...