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Robinson, as the detective, is dutifully inhuman throughout. The relish with which he shows movies of the Nazi gas chambers would delight any red-blooded ghoul, and his poker-face in delivering such lines as "You're shocked at my cold-bloodedness" is, for some inexplicable reason, hilarious. Welles is suitably desperate as the Nazi, even though he fails to exhibit any quality which could conceivably have inspired his wife's animal-like devotion to him. Loretta Young plays the animal...
...developed Griffin partly with the profits from another beast, named Nasturtium. Bought by Aste as a yearling for $4,300, Nasturtium bloomed into the best two-year-old race horse of 1901. "The bluebloods must have got worried," Aste related with relish, decades later: "A bootblack with a champion!" William C. Whitney, one of that period's great turfmen, wanted to buy Nasturtium. Aste demanded a price then considered outrageous-$50,000-and set a deadline of noon the next Saturday when this offer would be withdrawn...
...made strong representations.'' Ickes also relates rather gleefully how the President "developed the groundwork for a campaign against Willkie. He is going to try to tie Willkie in with the idea of the 'corporate state,' which was Mussolini's original idea." Concluded Ickes with relish: "It seems to me inevitable that in this campaign we will fight out the issue of democracy versus fascism...
...seemed to relish the excitement. Accepting a silver salver from Bristol University, Sir Winston beamed at the students and declared: "I thank you for giving it to me on a day which, as you will see by looking at your papers, I am supposed to be in a bit of a scrape...
...studded his play with what seems to pass for witty dialogue. "Chinese food for breakfast?" queries a feminine colleague. "Well," replies the doctor with obvious glee, "the sun rises in the East." Though not exactly fine repartee, the cast manages such lines with surprising deftness. Indeed, it seems to relish them...