Word: slurrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Department should make this film required movie-going, and that is no slur upon its entertainment value. In almost every scene there is a slice of provincial France. The earnest, effeminate priest and the super-rationalistic school-teacher involve themselves in endless, fantastic arguments. A two-for-a-nickel marquis, complete with gloves and plus-fours, drops into town now and then from his chateau, to have a quick one with the boys at the "Club." There are also plenty of village dim-wits, who won't speak to one another because their parents and grandparents wouldn't either...
...That although Allies and Germans tend to slur over their defeats, the communiqués issued by the actual military and naval commands of both sides are generally reliable and generally in the long run confirm each other. (Exception: accounts of air raids. Aviators of both sides swooping in at 300 m.p.h. through a barrage, dropping their bombs and getting out in a hurry are likely to overestimate damage done...