Word: signalman
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...accomplished actress, That Hamilton Woman will come as a nasty shock. While undemonstrative Husband Olivier mumbles his lines in his gullet or grimaces slightly to keep pace with his blind eye and scarred forehead. Miss Leigh changes the key completely by winking, pouting and fanning the air like a signalman. Her dramatic progress has left her only a gender's distance from Mickey Rooney. The picture provides the sort of lethargic Mother Goose history which does not make movies, just monumental boredom...
Trouble indeed ensued at an ATS dance last week in Catterick, Yorkshire. When an outside sentry gave the blackout midnight challenge and received no reply, he fired a shot through the dance-room window. The bullet smashed a bottle on the bar, gravely wounded one Signalman Chapman...
William Bloor has been the signalman at Winwick Junction for 21 years. A tall, middleaged, careful-minded, precise-spoken Briton who had never before had an accident on his section, he spoke with genuine puzzlement: ''So far as the down line is concerned, my mind is a blank...
...time of the accident there were seven trains approaching, leaving or passing Signalman Bloor's junction. He had just passed through a Manchester express, a westbound freight, the doomed local. He held up a cattle train behind the local to let a fish train pass south. Said he: "The fish train was the key to the movements in my mind." Up from the south roared the fast express. Mr. Bloor got the fish train out of the way. "I was quite relieved in my mind...
...free-for-all race off Cowes. America, a rakish Yankee upstart which had crossed the Atlantic with the idea of bullying Englishmen into match races and making its owners some money, was grudgingly permitted to compete. When America came leaning down toward the finish line Queen Victoria asked her signalman who was second. "Your Majesty," he said, "there aren't no second...