Word: paget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
...hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character...
...George's narrow white streets murmured. Harrington Sound's blue-green waters were vexed. Paget's vegetable patches and Somerset's coves were not as peaceful as they looked. The reason was an ad in the Bermuda Royal Gazette. It said...
...helpless. British tanks had nuzzled up to the French positions. While the city rang with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
...Paget brought General Humbolt up from Beirut to show him what the French Army had done to Damascus. After touring the streets in a British staff car, Humbolt sacked Roget. The Arabs had neither forgotten nor forgiven the shelling of Damascus by the French in 1925. Now they recalled that the French Government removed General Maurice Sarrail for that atrocity-and that the city was shelled again the following year...