Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-breathing story: Hedy lies and cheats her way into marriage with a rich old man (Gene Lockhart). Then she lures her husband's son (Louis Hayward) into patricide. Finally she is ready to steal a better looking man (George Sanders), who belongs to her best girl friend (Hillary Brooke). From the very beginning of these turgid, dragged-out, unconvincing carryings-on, it is plain that Miss Lamarr and her honeycomb lips will eventually wind up in Proverbial death and an Old Testament hell...
Certainly we had not hoped for such boundless energy from Joseph Roger, the small, ugly delegate from France. During the war his job with the Maquis had been to steal Nazi files about the French underground. Caught, shot without trial, and left for dead, he was found two days later by a gravedigger and nursed slowly back to life. Today, still carrying the bullet somewhere in his head, he is back at the Sorbonne, leading in the French student movement...
...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...
Said Georges Bernanos: "Europe has not another fundamental reality today than the black market. ... It is becoming a civilization of hands, hands to beg, hands to take, to steal, instead of being a civilization of souls. Machines are such hands, the atom bomb is such a hand, formed to smash the world. Why have we a bomb to destroy a city in one minute and no machine to construct a city in the same time? . . . The world cannot be saved by machines or by popular masses. It can only be saved by free...
When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...