Word: torridity
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Like other republics great & small, Liberia had had a Nazi Fifth Column; unlike most others, Liberia had got rid of it, apparently for good and all, in a torrid two-act drama...
Virginia (Paramount). Produced by Virginia-born Director Edward H. Griffith,* from a story he wrote with Virginia Van Upp, Virginia was filmed on the spot, in torrid, somnolent Albemarle County, where Thomas Jefferson lived and died. In spite of the labored accents of its non-Confederate cast (only Southern actor featured in Virginia is Tom Rutherford, a Richmond blue blood) its lines have an authentic ring, might have been copied down verbatim from the resentful speeches of Albemarle's land-loving inhabitants...
There comes a tide in the affairs of Hollywood when pictures sink to the ebb of human endurance. One of the lowest ebb-tides occurred during the past summer's torrid months. But as fall has come, and movie-house owners can no longer feature air-cooling above the highest priced star, the tide has turned. The program now showing at the University is ample evidence of the fact...
...That torrid little country (see map) is about the size of Missouri. Its capital, Berbera, is on the coast but has no port facilities. It has a municipal water system but no railway, no bank, no hotel. A coast road connects it through the secondary "port" of Zeila with Djibouti in French Somaliland which fell into Italy's hands in June...
...askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road east from Harar and Giggiga, struck at Hargeisa and Oadweina-shack towns used by herdsmen and caravans as watering and market places...