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...take savage pleasure in initiating "pollywogs" (sailors who have not crossed the equator before) into King Neptune's "Royal Order of Shellbacks." The 350 shellbacks aboard busied themselves fashioning clubs out of canvas stuffed with rags, constructing a throne for Neptune, a ducking pool and other devices of torment for his victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...leaves this film convinced that Mai Zetterling (who recently appeared in the Swedish film Torment) will be worth watching unless the glamorizers ruin her; that Mr. Farrar is a personable leading man; that the makers of this picture meant very well; and that nothing at all revealing, or even particularly real, has happened on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Back Countries' . . . young girls accede almost without hesitation to all caresses of men whom they have seen that day for the first time.. . ." If "When a Quakeress feels lecherous impulses, she notifies her husband of it and does her best to make him share her torment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Passionless U. S. | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Current & Choice, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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