Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.G.M.) is a mildly loony comedy starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. In some never-never prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor. On her silly trail throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship by her adroit...
...hardier unionists ventured on the "blitz course"-the mean, trying 1,000-yard obstacle trail where Rangers are toughened: through barbed wire, up cliffs, over barricades, crawling on their stomachs while tracer bullets streaked above and bombs burst around. For a final treat the Division staged a mock battle, and the weary visitors watched guns and tanks they had helped make swing into action...
...marched to a telephone, called the police, represented herself successively as the operator at Fort Wayne, Selfridge Field and Wayne County Airport. Her message: all soldiers on pass in the area return to their stations at once. More than 2,000 did, leaving drinks, dates and shows and a trail of blue air. Barbara finally looked up a policeman and confessed. Said she: "If I couldn't have him, I was making sure no one else could...
...beyond the ordering of governments. There was such a time when millions of Europeans of all faiths and nationalities moved to the New World in a great tidal wave of humanity. There was such a time when the West was settled and thousands of emigrants swept over the Oregon Trail...
...main purpose in writing this book has not been to present an argument for religious faith. . . . I have tried in writing, as in personal counseling, to begin with people as I have found them, and to confront religion only when, following the trail of their problems and needs, I ran headlong into it. Nevertheless, one does run headlong into...