Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nice of Rosita to introduce the cast. They probably look good to other doves. Say, those birds in here don't look so tame. Sitting there in a row--this must be the kind of place they write about. Let's just sidle up close and get acquainted...
Hardened Saliva. Georgie found plenty of compensations, notably when he could go on jungle safari with the natives to gather birds' nests. In the land where the orchids grow wild, the men have grown tame, but collecting birds' nests still requires skill and daring. Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does...
Political & Diplomatic Career: Broke with the Republicans and voted for Al Smith in 1928. Great friend and follower of F.D.R., he became the tame, showcase millionaire of the New Deal. Held several jobs in the early years of the Roosevelt revolution, mostly trying to soothe irritated fellow businessmen. Defense Expediter in London (1941) to speed the flow of lend-lease aid to Britain and Russia. Ambassador to Russia, 1943-46. Had monthly conferences with Stalin, probably knows him better than any other American (Stalin presented him with a white horse). In 1945, sensed the impending break in the U.S.-Russian...
...Birds on inaccessible islands are tame and friendly: albatrosses have been known to bow politely to human visitors...
...reworked the rest, the story is overplotted confusing and lacking in dramatic force Only in the grand-scale scenes of the closing minutes, when the gladiators and lion; are turned loose on the martyrs, does this film develop any real excitement. Up to then, it dawdles turgidly over a tame counterfeit of Roman debauchery, an involved political-religious intrigue and a routine love story that pairs a patrician's daughter (Michele Morgan) with a crypto-Christian gladiator (Henri Vidal...