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...Dick Haymes and proceeded to develop that peculiar mixture of maudlin sentiment and half-hearted satire that passes for musical comedy on the screen. The result, which was supposed to send Bostonians hustling to their desks to write indignant letters to the local papers, is scarcely strong enough to stir up the lunatic fringe of New England nationalism...
...suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have been enough to stir up monstrous waves...
Said Lawyer Lamb: "It is unwise to specify these fabulous and reckless sums. They . . . may stir Congress to adopt restrictive legislation...
Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
...Verdict (Warner), set in late 19th Century London, commits a leisurely murder in a locked room but fails to stir up much interest in whodunit. Either Sidney Greenstreet or Peter Lorre, both obviously untrustworthy characters full of guilty knowledge, lurks suspiciously in every shadow...