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...even five-corpses are going to be too many for one feature-length film. But as soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...read history either with a sneer or conversely only after the black pages have been deleted, is the equivalent of drinking water from a poisoned well. To be sure, cold, unemotional, purely factual analysis of human history is difficult and a similar examination of contemporary events is impossible to achieve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Civil Courage' Necessary For Peace, Asserts Conant | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...they ascended the deck. The American generals watched them come to attention in their designated places with varying degrees of emotion. Stilwell bristled like a dog at the sight of an enemy. Spaatz' chiseled face lines were sharp in contempt. Kenney curled his lips in a visible sneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ... Peace Be Now Restored | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...sneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Flag | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...Light. The court consisted of three judges and one alternate, all from the Red Army Judicial Service. The President Justice was Colonel General Vassily V. Ulrich, a round-faced, double-chinned man with twinkling eyes and a merry grin which sometimes seemed on the verge of becoming a sneer. The two prosecutors were Major General Nikolai A. Afanasyev and State Counselor R. A. Rudenko. Four movie cameras-two rigged for sound and two silent-eight Klieg lights and a restless dozen still photographers, each festooned with two to five German made cameras, recorded the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Frightened Poles | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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