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...ship convoy was strung out in line that day in November, the San Demetrio in front, slicing through a calm sea. When the German raider opened up she was directly in line of fire, was struck at once, despite the gallant efforts of the Jervis Bay to take the full blow. His ship badly smashed, the skipper ordered his crew to the boats. As they dropped astern, the San Demetrio was struck again and began to blaze. The weather began to kick up. Two of the boats disappeared. All afternoon, through the night, and most of the next...
...Picture. As haughty, high-strung Tracy Lord, imperious daughter of a Main Line first family, Miss Hepburn comes close to playing herself straight. In a choleric moment, Father Seth Lord (John Halliday) sizes her up with: "You have a good mind, a pretty face, and a disciplined body that does what you tell it. You have everything it takes to make a lovely woman except the one essential-an understanding heart. Without it, you might just as well be made of bronze." The Philadelphia Story weighs the personality of this fortress of femininity in terms of her love life, which...
Their big tanks raced forward through clouds of sand, to the southwest of the city. Sappers had blown earth into the tank traps, cut the thinly strung wire, exploded the land mines with flung stones...
...Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy introduced high-strung sensibilities, tears, swoons...
...some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only worrying, sensitive, high-strung people are affected. Chief choice that confronts an ulcer victim is medical v. surgical treatment...