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...Dukhobors are a Russian religious sect best known for their tendency to shuck off their clothes and parade naked through startled towns on the Canadian prairies. Less readily do Dukhobors shed the cloak of secrecy and deception in which they have hidden their affairs from a world they fervently mistrust. In Slava Bohu, Canadian Journalist J. F. C. Wright strips them down for good...
...newspaper inveighed against hasty and witless weddings. Cried Cleveland's Probate Judge Nelson Brewer: "Those young men who are unpatriotic and ungallant enough to marry purposely to evade the draft will leave their wives when the emergency ends." Said the Los Angeles Times: "Persons who take responsibilities lightly shuck them with equal facility. . . . The mass effect upon our social institutions of debasing matrimony into a funkhole for slackers is hardly an uplifting...
...plane young Mechanic Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver) works on crashes, G-men arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge in the gallant blue of the old K.u.K (Kaiserliche und Königliche) Armee, long vanished from the modern world except in Hollywood cinemas. Such a uniform, besides snubbing Germany, would remind Hungarians that they had once marched beside Austrians in that uniform...