Word: mosquitoe
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...Hollywood operators as John Ford and Robert Montgomery to lend an authentic and competent touch to cinema versions of the great battles. It would have been worth while, that is, if the producers of "They Were Expendable" had refrained from turning William L. White's stirring narrative of the mosquito boat war into the usual run of synthetic melodrama...
...performance by Bob Montgomery, who saw much real-life service with the mosquito boats, as the screen counterpart of Commander Bulkeley is natural and eminently satisfactory. So also is John Wayne's playing of the Squadron's executive officer, and Donna Reed is quite acceptable as the Army nurse who falls for Wayne; she is "good to have around...
Britain tossed the new International Court of Justice its first juicy nut last week. It was a tropical product of the days when English pirates set up their bases on the Mosquito Coast and raided the Spanish Main. British Honduras grew out of some of the old bases. But Spain's old captain generalcy of Guatemala owned the land and modern Guatemala claimed sovereignty over the British colony...
...exports & imports into reasonable balance-all factors affecting the purchasing power of currency. If they succeed, the Fund can help them. If they fail, the Fund offers no remedy, and Tory M.P. Oliver Lyttelton's quip will hold true: "It is not the least good putting up a mosquito net to try to keep out a charge of wild elephants...
Very different is the report of the ghost of a little old French lady in a faded green bonnet who tiptoes through the rooms of an old plantation at night. "Tirelessly, she journeys from bedchamber to bedchamber, raising mosquito baires and peering hopefully into the face of each sleeper." It is her doom never to find the face she seeks...