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...Story. Gučret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...
...Hugh Greene, sallow, 70, wears sensible shoes but contracts cancer anyway. The three months remaining to her to live she would wish six, since in six she expects a grandnephew or niece. But she exults over the thought that her unborn heir will get an estate of 2,534 acres...
...aquaplane into the plot. This air-photography is good, but Wings was better. The final sequence, in which one pilot dives at another on the field and afterwards rescues him when his plane falls into the Pacific, is about as true to life as a recruiting poster. The sallow aviator is Ramon Novarro...
...love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat. The plot is not developed as it would be in an old-fashioned picture but as in Mr. Caesar's play, by succinct and fairly inoffensive dialog...
...ceremony of recognition, by the way, is one of the most remembered in a cadet's life. June Week, just before graduation, is full of reviews, parades, and ceremonies. There are kings and princelings to be honored, and gray-haired old grads with the sallow cheeks of the Orient service upon them. Grimfaced men who have moved regiments and divisions to battle, who have built canals and railroads, who have broadened frontiers and brought peace and civilization to savage tribes; we are proud to honor them...