Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted...
...June. One-sixth of the earth's people, with their 225 languages, their 2,300 castes and 39 provinces, are living through their ancient order of life, not touching the 44,000,000 untouchables, not harming the sacred humpback cattle, not marrying outside their caste, not permitting the shadow of a European or an outcaste to fall upon their persons or their food...
This novel is purely a matter of personal taste. Its title and opening produce great expectation, but the story develops rather slowly, and finally one ends in a cold, foreboding shadow. Good adolescent reading, though...
...Shadow of a Doubt (Teresa Wright, Joseph Gotten; TIME...
...secondary characters, an international conglomerate which might easily have slipped into run-of-the-mile Hollywood caricatures, manage, with the aid of some smooth dialogue to over shadow the big three on numerous occasions, Claude Raines, as the boot-licking, opportunistic Vichy chief of police is at his best. Conrad Veidt plays a Gestapo chief who, unlike the usual blustering buffon that Hollywood Nazis usually are, is more sinister than laughable. Peter Lorre, an unseen corpse after the first few scenes, and Dooley Wilson, playing "As Time Goes By" to repair broken hearts, complete the list of ingredients in this...