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Word: oddments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Drums." An oddment from Alexander Korda in the late '30s; the Raj and Great Game, with Sabu truckling to The Man and, as so often in films of the era, an astonishingly blithe and racist narrative wherein all enemies of the British colonials are mad cult leaders with snake pits and strange gods. The mad cult leaders are played by scrawny Jewish character actors darkened with shoe polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Best Picture for 1950 Is.... | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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