Word: stragglers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They came by the thousands-men, women & children. As they took in the sights-105 brand-new two-bedroom houses for sale-they munched candy and sandwiches. When the last straggler left, twelve hours later, every last house had been sold. It was Los Angeles' Liberty Building Co.'s third and most spectacular one-day sale...
...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...
Youngster officer-pilots of the new Philippine Air Force sailed into the Jap with a daring and skill that popped the eyes of their opposite numbers from the U.S. One army flight of three jumped 20 Jap planes, knocked out three, chased the rest, picked up a straggler on the way home and sent him down in flames. A bombing flight lumbered serenely through heavy ack-ack fire to unload on warships, then kicked off altitude and strafed a landing party on the beach...
...whole horizon seemed filled with ships. Seventy or eighty ships of all kinds and sizes arrayed in fourteen lines, each of which could have been drawn with a ruler; hardly a wisp of smoke, not a straggler, but all bristling with cannon and other precautions on which I will not dwell...
...rights, the film should just be a dated straggler on the U. S. screen. Yet Director Julien Duvivier's camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay...