Word: parapet
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...production was the same for all four scenes, with slight alterations, and represented the battle-ments of Thebes with bare stone stops leading to the walk below the parapet. This gave the whole production a classical and severe aspect, matching well the tone of the play. In general the whole production was done with the skill of professionals...
...cheery sunrise down No Man's Land; two bedraggled troopers sneaking past a break in the parapet on all fours, their mess kit handles between their teeth (Mess Time, Pilkem...
...Apted, armed like a battleship, go the honors of the chase. First, he calmly surveyed the scene from the haven of a first floor window. Then with set and courageous mien he stalked his prey over the parapet and emptied the contents of his two black six shooters into the quivering flesh. Satisfied by the sound of the six shots which evidently startied the skunk into a corpse, Apted, still calm, ordered his minions to inter the deceased in the midst of the stench-stained scene of carnage. It was a lonely service for few of the once optimistic...
PYRAMID OF POWER. As Red Army divisions, marching 50 men abreast, sweep across Moscow's vast Red Square, leaders of the Party and the State watch from a parapet of Nikolai Lenin's glistening black and red granite tomb. When President Roosevelt made overtures last week to the Bolsheviki (a Russian word meaning "majority") he did not write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead President Roosevelt addressed...
...suicide. As an adequate finish to this melodramatic tale (adapted from Author Sir Philip Gibbs's novel, Fellow Prisoners), the entire prison camp escapes. Howard, who has given the gentlemanly Commandant (Paul Lukas) his word not to try to escape, tricks the gate guard down from his parapet, kills him with his own gun, mans the parapet machine-gun. Thus covered the other prisoners stampede the remaining guards, bowl over the gates and swarm to the nearby airdrome. All together they fly home while Hero Howard stays at his parapet post until blown up, thus giving his wife...