Word: nez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appears that the newspaper publisher, a bulky, sinister, pince-nez-polishing fascist (Edward Arnold), has always intended to use the John Doe Clubs to get himself elected President and regiment the U. S. people into some sense. Doe learns this from the newspaper editor (James Gleason), a patriot who has got drunk with the horror of the idea. The notion of having the prime patriotic appeal of the picture delivered by a soused journalist (and ex-soldier) is a crowning piece of Capra-Riskin-Gleason virtuosity...
Only occasionally does Barrymore's great talent for mimicry flare. For the remainder he merely peeks over a pince-nez, flings an occasional gesture with his personable paws as if the whole business were just a nuisance...
...observed by the Luftwaffe, but the quiet was ominous. The most terrific military force in the world, the German Army, had been idle for six months and on Christmas Eve its commander, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, visited its westernmost camps on the Channel coast. At Cap Gris Nez, near the long-range guns which sporadically hurl shells into England, he told his men: "The Channel will protect England only so long as it suits us." Führer Hitler was also at the Western Front during the holiday lull, exhorting his troops and talking darkly about mighty efforts...
Last week R. A. F. bombers kept filling out the pattern, stepping up their intensity. They roared down the coastline smashing at docks & shipping from Norway to the Spanish border, pounding the big guns at Cap Gris Nez, blasting barges at Calais. As the week advanced, they gave the French ports their worst battering of the war. Diving through a howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage...
...tennis who discovers that his opponent has dropped his racket and pulled out a gun. In Washington Secretary Hull stepped into his press conference, leaned on the back of his chair, and asked, "Are there any questions this morning, gentlemen?" From his pocket he extracted his familiar pince-nez with the heavy black ribbon, put them on, and read a prepared statement: "The reported alliance does not . . . substantially alter a situation which has existed for several years. Announcement of the alliance merely makes clear to all a relationship which has long existed in effect and to which this Government...