Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood abandons its "we like everybody" policy in this movie, and the dangers of fascism are stated frankly and tersely. Pearl Buck's novel has been followed closely for the most part. The action 'begins in a peaceful pro-war Chinese valley; then, "the dwarfa" from across the mountains send over their deadly bombs. Shocked into realization of what is happening, the Chinese use all their skill and fortitude to ward off the enemy...
Honolulu's red-light district is small and sad-20 frame houses straggling along alleys near a brackish river called Nuuanu Stream. But since Pearl Harbor it has profited fabulously because thousands of soldiers, sailors and civilian workers have funneled into the Island of Oahu. The Army & Navy, which cracked down on open prostitution in the continental U.S., had winked at it in Honolulu, perhaps because the venereal rate remained extremely...
Aroused by the public outcry, Honolulu police made the rounds telling prostitutes to move out of their homes in residential districts. This produced a wave of indignation from the prostitutes. They had pitched in and rolled bandages for the Red Cross after Pearl Harbor. One madam boasts a citation from Henry Morgenthau for selling $132,000 worth of bonds during the Fifth War Loan Drive. To be asked to move out of their private homes seemed to members of the oldest profession unfair discrimination against patriotic citizens...
...Lieut. General WalterC. Short's and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimme's failure to coordinate their efforts was one of the things responsible for the disaster at Pearl Harbor. (Kimmel protested this week that Truman made "false statements concerning my conduct...
...Marshall. After Patton's hysterical slapping of two enlisted men in the Sicilian campaign, Eisenhower ordered him to make a public apology, but he did not fire him. After Patton blurted out his opinions on foreign affairs, Eisenhower put him in wraps. Shrill voice, riding breeches, starred helmet, pearl-handled pistols and all, George Patton disappeared from view...