Word: trapdoors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kill. George Moore once snorted that in War and Peace Tolstoy tried to outdo Nature, and would wake up at night screaming: "I forgot High Mass! I forgot a yacht race!" The authors of The Bat must have similarly wailed: "We left out a tarantula! We forgot a trapdoor...
Second, the producers ignored the finest part of the Flora MacDonald legend, in which she bolts a door with her maidenly ulna to give Charlie time to flee through a trapdoor. It is not for mere moral support to a prince in his hour of need that Scottish ladies' societies around the globe are named in honor of noble Flora. To omit her finest hour is to mock the mettle of Caledonian womenhood...