Word: ruefulnesses
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...uses one of the grimmest moments of the war-the fall of France-for half-satiric, half-fantastic comedy. Its comic thesis is that flight from the Nazis makes strange carfellows. A swaggering, snooty Polish colonel with "a perfect 15th-Century mind" (well played by Louis Calhern) and a rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find a car; Jacobowsky finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel condescends to take the wheel, and off they go-smack toward...
Victory & Defeat. That policy brought one disaster when the Prince of Wales and Repulse sought a surface battle and ran instead into crushing Japanese air power. It brought a rueful success when the unarmored merchant cruiser Jervis Bay tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing, saving a convoy by her sacrifice. But it paid off richly in the destruction of the Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME...
Last week the Herald-Telegram reached its second birthday, but there was no special anniversary edition. Said shy, rueful Publisher Wiehle: "I forgot...
Honest Finn Paananen knew there must be some mistake. But for nearly a week he kept the check in his pants pocket, felt by turns rueful and frolicsome. He drove to the Plymouth National Bank, casually asked the teller to cash a check, watched his face when he shoved it through the window. Then he complained to the vice president, had fun watching his face too. Finally Andrew Paananen mailed the check back to the Treasury. "I think the $15.25 part of it is right," said...
...parched despair of Allen's voice is matched by his rueful features. In the classic comic tradition, he is persistently gloomy. In point of fact, his early lot was not too happy. A onetime stack-boy in the Boston Public Library, he got interested in juggling through reading a few books on the subject, soon became so proficient with balls and billiard cues that he was permitted to join a troupe of amateurs touring movie houses around Boston. Allen was subjected to all kinds of indignities. He was struck from behind with bladders, bothered by flying stuffed fish, interrupted...