Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thrifty, earthy Alsace parents sent young Pétain through St. Cyr military academy, later left him a small fortune. He took on the prevailing St. Cyr color-reaction, royalism, distrust of politics. He also developed a love of off-tune brass bands, climbing trees, skipping rope, floating paper boats in a tub of water, watching animals...
...customers get a good run of gags. Says Hope, rope-netted to a dromedary's side: "I never thought I'd end up in a camel's snood." The chinny comedian also does a female impersonation. Crosby, who marks his tenth movie anniversary with this film, celebrates the occasion by being in customary good voice. Best Numbers: Moonlight Becomes You, Constantly. Dorothy Lamour will probably pick up a few more votes as the Army's favorite pin-up girl...
...Konig-stein prison was told last spring it was so fabulously like an Alfred Hitchcock cinema that most observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British, who sent a plane to Switzerland for him, but that before it arrived...
...wizened little Scotchman named "Scotty" with the degree of R.E.W. (rope escape wizard), amused a large crowd of Deacons last night in the Kirkland Junior Common Room by escaping from the bonds he begged to be trussed...
...mechanics under thoroughgoing Floyd Anderson were flown in. Food and water were delivered by air. When other demands prevented continued deliveries, the mechanics caught rain water in buckets, shot gazelles for meat and kept tinkering with the plane. Heavy rains began to fill the river. The mechanics hitched a rope to the plane's nose and got natives to tug it up the bank. A month after the accident the plane roared down a makeshift runway and took off, leaving natives agog...