Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the tortuous, terraced streets of Chungking, frightened Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...
...critical analysis discloses flaws in plenty. The action occasionally slows to a tortuous crawl in sequences where long pieces of quasi-philosophy or super-sentimentality are inserted. Also on the debit side is a strained and obvious attempt to give the picture social significance. But these faults are not sufficient to weight down an otherwise light and airy fantasy. Roland Young and Billie Burke, whose reputations characterize the film, fit happily into its mood and spirit; while the names of Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. look well on the marquee...
...Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup, hit a trainload of CCC boys head on, killed one. Then, one morning last week, disaster struck twice again on Montana's tortuous stretches...
...disturbing reports of dissension between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his military aides. Chief dissenter was General Li Tsung-jen, powerful military leader of Kwangsi, a South China province neighboring Canton, who patched up his long-standing quarrel with the Generalissimo when hostilities started eleven months ago. In the tortuous back-stepping before the Japanese the Generalissimo has repeatedly pulled his own crack German-trained divisions from the front lines first, leaving the raw, ill-equipped mass of his army, largely composed of provincial troops, to cover the retreat. This, coupled with Chiang's hesitancy in sending the Chinese...
...moment of Mr. Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life...