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...which sounds more like an oration than a battlefront dispatch--go by the boards, and nobody much cares. It's really a better-than-average plot, and the mustached hero is his usual charming self. Miss Turner's bodily presence in an assortment of gay dresses and one bath towel is enough to bring the spectators in droves. She isn't too bad an actress, either. Robert Sterling, as the kid brother, is fair enough. The film is never boring, and its value to you is strictly a matter of taste. For them as likes a good neck. "Somewhere...
Some of it is overly-sophisticated, as the catty dialogue with Pamela, the Major's fiancee; and some of it is slapstick: the chase through the train to escape the conductors, her contortions to stop the Major's nosebleed with a cold towel. But more important and more satisfying are the take-offs on sophistication, the Veronica Lake fad, the girl-wise cadets, and the whole portrayal of the buffaloed Major Kirby...
...felt as if my heart were being squeezed like a wet towel. I was overpowered with a great restlessness and a fear that it might not be my lot to realize Her in this life. I could not bear the separation from Her any longer. Life seemed to be not worth living. Suddenly my glance fell on the sword that was kept in the Mother's temple. I determined to put an end to my life. When I jumped up like a madman and seized it, suddenly the blessed Mother revealed Herself...
...airport rest house Willkie said the right thing: "One of the difficulties facing me is that one falls so much in love with the Chinese people that it is difficult to form a critical and fact-finding judgment." According to Chinese custom, he was given a hot towel with which to refresh his hands...
...special committee to probe the whole idea; non-members merely wanted the exchange to lay off. But one thing seemed certain: if the Big Board keeps up the good work on "special offerings" and revises its rules to permit corporation membership, many a nonmember firm may toss in the towel, apply for a seat...