Word: utterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British it was utter, humiliating defeat. Tobruk, the same battle-scarred port that last year held out for eight months against Axis besiegers, succumbed to one day's attack. Tobruk fell quickly, squashily, to the planes, tanks and guns of Germany's Erwin Rommel. The Axis announced that it took 28,000 Allied prisoners in the garrison, including "several generals." This was indirectly confirmed by a British report which said that Axis shelling prevented any substantial rescue...
Although Tyrone Power gives the performance of his cinematic career as the embittered young deserter, it is not good enough. His handsome, unlined face contradicts the profound words he is asked to utter. He does not for a moment look as if he had either thought or lived them. This deficiency is partially offset by the slick performances of bit-players Merivale, Nigel Bruce, Alexander Knox, Gladys Cooper, etc. Their considerable assistance helps make This Above All an entertaining, occasionally inspiring picture which almost came...
...even to guffaw outright every time the persecuted Mr. Taylor shows his irresistible face. In the old days the male animal used to carry this jealously-inspired persecution even farther, and three years ago in a New York theatre seven men were prostrated with hysterics before Mr. Taylor could utter a single word...
...sooner was the committee indictment out than the Navy chuffed up with its own report. "Direct and sole" cause of the fire, a Navy Court of Inquiry solemnly ruled, was "gross carelessness and utter violation of rules of common sense" by Robins Dry Dock employes. Full responsibility, the Navy grumped, belonged there. Recommendation: to sue Robins for damages to the full extent of liability...
...money the Chicago Maternity Center on Maxwell Street (recently popularized in the movie The Fight for Life), which sends doctors and nurses to women in the slums. He was a man who knew that doctors, like other men, make many mistakes. Whenever a nurse slipped up, he would utter no reproach, but send her a box of candy...