Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient guns and showing empty cartridge belts, fierce tribesmen kept shouting at their sovereign, "Give us bullets! We want to shoot!" Meanwhile Ethiopia's Coptic clergy, supposed to play a prominent role in celebrating the end of the rainy season, were repeatedly driven indoors by a violent tropical storm which raged around His Majesty with shrill tempest screeches until the ground was covered with three inches of water and pasteboard coronation emblems were washed from the Triumphal Arch...
...Chosen (written & produced by Nora Lawlor) mainly concerns five novice nuns. During the course of three acts, one succumbs to ill health, one goes out of her mind, one gets killed in a storm and two decide that the cloistered life is not for them. Except in the U. S. S. R., a play about a religious institution which does not stultify its material with sanctimoniousness stands a good chance of being suppressed. Few Are Chosen will never be suppressed...
...never lost her composure during her arrest, questioning, imprisonment, trial, or execution. When a bystander lifted her bloody head and slapped the face, a murmur of rage swept through the crowd. A summer storm that had roared over the scene suddenly passed, the skies grew light and the thunder & lightning ceased...
Equipped with appallingly threadbare dialog, Storm over the Andes gives a curious impression (except for the airplanes) of having been made 20 years ago when Cinemactor Moreno was matching wits with the Hooded Terror and other hobgoblins of the old serials...
Managerial competitions have received a severe buffeting at Harvard in recent years and are now, in the calm that has followed the storm, confronted with a disturbing neglect of their benefits. Probably, the only manager who receives anything like the universal respect that he deserves is the Football Manager...