Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ubico was candidate for the Presidency in 1926, she started as his chauffeur, branched out into campaign-managing. Little boys followed her in the street, mocked her great height. She stood it for a while, then began scolding and spanking. So famous became her spankings that Guatemalan mothers still scare their children by threatening to call La Maciste...
This description of the plight of German soldiers came not from Russian sources but from a Nazi correspondent, for Herr Goebbels has apparently decided that the best way to toughen German citizens is to scare them stiff. The report added: "The perpetual order is: positions must be held until retreat is ordered, and the order must be carried out at any price. Thus there are endless marches through night and darkness. . . . More than once entire regiments-and once an entire division-have had to fight a way through to our own lines...
...that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News'?, belligerent William Stoneman: "The biggest scare of all was given by the President of the United States...
Miss Harrison, with notable help from mood-wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...
...barely prevented from diving off a cliff. She cannot explain why. The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage a seance, is that they are caught in the spectral cross fire of a pair of feuding nether worldlings. By the time the ghosts are laid, the scare-voltage is so high that the spooks seem as close to a nervous collapse as their victims...