Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high, thin, wispy cirrus cloud and its relatives, the milky cirrostratus and ripply cirrocumulus, are ideal cover for high-altitude bombers: they provide a one-way screen that allows an airman to see his target but hides him from planes or groundlings below...
...fire. De Marigny submitted to a microscopic examination, was found to have singed hairs on arms, beard and head. He said he got them scalding chickens, lighting hurricane lamps. Police experts testified that a fingerprint identical with De Marigny's right little finger was found on a screen near Sir Harry's bed. De Marigny denied having been at Westbourne since March. De Marigny has never recalled what became of the shirt and socks he had on the day of the murder. Police testified that he had said he "hated him [Sir Harry] because he was a stupid...
Died. Arthur Farnsworth, 36, aeronautical-parts executive, husband of Screen Tragedienne Bette Davis; two days after he dropped unconscious on Hollywood Boulevard, two months after a head-banging fall downstairs; in Hollywood...
Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...
...goes even one step further: it strips a 1943 movie of all its cheap thrills and tries to portray an intensely psychological situation, almost a "Turn of the Screw" of its own. Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that is portrayed in "The Constant Nymph...