Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferdinand got the support of Russia's Nicholas II, after Stambolov had been conveniently hacked to death by an assassin. He promoted himself from prince to czar, later sealed his own regal fate by choosing Wilhelm's side in World War I. In 1918 he stole out of Sofia, leaving his throne to his son Boris...
...Pitfall (Regal Films; United Artists) is the sort of melodrama in which an ordinary guy gets into extraordinary trouble. The guy (Dick Powell), a claims adjuster for an insurance firm, is a happy homebody with a wife (Jane Wyatt) and child (Jimmy Hunt). But duty requires Dick to investigate a Pitfall (Lizabeth Scott). He spends a fervid evening with her and even kisses her, right in front of the camera. This dalliance generates plot complications that put one man in the morgue and another in the hospital. As the picture ends, it is clear that Dick's wife...
...usual, DeMille twists history until Clio cries uncle. The Third Crusade was a chiefly political adventure which set one-half of the world against the other; under DeMille's pseudo-Homeric touch the story shapes up as a sort of Puppetoon Iliad, chiefly concerned with regal wrangles over a medieval beauty (Miss Young...
After an hour or two, the white-sheeted Klansmen emerged. With them, regal in his green robes, came Georgia's Grand Dragon, Dr. Samuel Green, who is an Atlanta physician in his spare time. The Ledger's photographer, Joe Talbot, 36, stepped forward, started shooting flashbulbs...
...Since Jinnah became Governor General, Fatima has blossomed, in her wraithlike fashion, as official hostess. When Jinnah's illness kept him in Lahore, Fatima paid regal visits every day to hospitals, refugee camps and schools. If photographers failed to turn up, Fatima was beside herself. Lahore's famed rose gardens were renamed Gulistan-i-Fatima (Miss Fatima Gardens). Her car sported a blue personal flag with the initials "FJ" encircled in the center...