Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presented, the situation is perfect for an intelligent comedy of the same order as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" or "Blithe Spirit." Th ex-flyer is guided back to earth by a whimsical orderly of World War I vintage; he jokes about the events of his other life; he cynically surveys images of himself at different ages and mental capacities. Everything is perfect for comedy except for the regrettable tragedy of death and its effects on friends and relatives...
...perfect order was an anachronism, a noticeable incongruity, in conquered Germany. British guards on a bridge in Bëmervörde, noting and suspecting the perfection of Herr Hitzinger's papers, dumped him in a prison camp. After three days he declared to the camp commandant: "I am Heinrich Himmler...
...Berlin to Flensburg to the north German moors, his shadow caught up with him. Heinrich Himmler, whom his fellow Nazis had ironically nicknamed "gentle Heinrich," had shaved his Hitlerian mustache, replaced his scholarly pince-nez with a black eye patch. He had become Herr Hitzinger. His papers were in perfect order. He loved order...
Inga Arvad, sightly Danish film writer, thought it over for two days, then broke her engagement to British M.P. (Conservative) Robert Boothby-because she felt that the stigma of having once been described by Adolf Hitler as "the perfect Nordic beauty" would hurt her M.P.'s career...
...Perfect Matches. In Washington, Elizabeth Bliss married a Lieut. Divine. In Bozeman, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Charles Wheat and Agnes Cotton. In Coronado, Calif., one Dorothy Dix was wed to a Lieut. Danny Deaver...