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...Pickering and Detroit police searched the three-story building, found nothing suspicious. But at 11:30 that night, a night watchman spotted a rain-soaked cardboard carton outside an unused basement entrance. It was wrapped in red and green Christmas paper and tied with a piece of cheap blue ribbon. Inside were 39 sticks of dynamite, carefully packed and taped into three bundles. One of the two fuses had burned out within an inch of the detonator, apparently snuffed out by the black friction tape which bound it too tightly; the other had fizzled out against a defective dynamite...
...flock, raise it carefully until ready for marketing, and remit the proceeds to the party exchequer. While the choice Communist chick is being fattened, added Gino brightly, it might be nice to distinguish it from its leaner non-Communist brethren by tying around its neck a bright red ribbon...
After the cheers died and Earl Teater rode out to accept the blue ribbon for Dodge Stables, the judges got together to phrase their official comment. One wanted to say simply that Wing Commander was far ahead of the field. Said another judge: "I don't think we want to say that. We don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Let's just say there's not another stud like him showing today...
...Wore a Yellow Ribbon" makes John Wayne a cavalry captain who has to worry about a group of hostile Indians. Except for a few stray arrows and an occasional ambush, he successfully avoids any major bloodshed through the entire movie, and is accordingly promoted to Colonel at the end. To this reviewer's way of thinking, this lack of a climactic large-scale gun-fight (Ford substituted a middle-scale stampede) is perfectly reasonable; any cavalry captain who would deliberated take on 2000 Arapahoes armed with Winchesters is a foolish man indeed...
...strong, Guy ran through a bewildering string of conquests. His mistresses included prostitutes, actresses, a singer-writer from Sandusky, Ohio named Blanche Roosevelt, a French woman whose husband was a diplomat in Rumania and for whom (perhaps to show his gratitude) De Maupassant tried to obtain the coveted ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and a Polish noblewoman...