Word: misteres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoe Shine, Mister? Like a crazed animal, the Jap had purged himself after a savage campaign in Nanking's 1937 blood bath. But, whatever fears gnawed at hearts in U.S. homes last week, there was no confirmed evidence that the rape of Nanking had been repeated, not even at Hong Kong, where the British wrathfully protested Jap atrocities. A few cases of rape were reported there, and British troopers were said to have been put to work shining shoes. But, on the whole, what happens before complete order is restored in a captured city is often better left unsaid...
...year by a trapeze act in a circus. Meanwhile he learned to fly. His passion was the all-metal airplane. He designed one in 1927-a failure. But by last fall he was a recognized designer at Republic, the head of a department of 200 engineers (who call him Mister...
...Mister V (Small; United Artists) will not fool even the dunces in the back row. Its producer-director-star, airy Leslie Howard, played the same leading role seven years ago in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Then he was an 18th-Century English lord, airily rescuing French aristocrats imperiled by the Revolution; now he is a peripatetic British archeologist, airily saving scientists from Hitler...
...Mister I was undoubtedly designed for propaganda as well as pleasure, but the gruff Gestapo is too charmingly outfoxed to be taken seriously. The Gestapo head, biding his time, huffs: "Rome wasn't built in a day-even by Mussolini...
...Oliver Wallace for the best scoring of a musical picture in Walt Disney's Dumbo. Churchill had failed to equal his earlier Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and Heigh Ho, but had turned out three pleasant tunes-Baby Mine, Casey Junior, Look Out for Mister Stork. Wallace's best number was When I See an Elephant...