Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particular kind of snobbery, may wonder what it is all about. But Author Llewellyn has lived on both sides of the diphthong curtain (he has been both an enlisted man and a captain in the Welsh Guards), and he plays this theme until a sense of caste becomes a vein of madness as authentic as Othello's jealousy...
...Germany), and of those who raped the Black Forest villages during World War II, finding their food and fun where they could. Some German women believe, whether or not it is true, that in those days one Moroccan raped a fraulein, then killed her by biting through her jugular vein. The French deny that Moroccans committed more rape than any other troops, but they are sole possessors of the statistics, and do not release them. Protested much-respected French Colonel Pierre Charton: "The Moroccan soldier is exceptionally well disciplined . . . But you must always keep a certain distance." The French offered...
...casual air throughout, with the result that he seems not only human, but typically Army. This effect arises naturally from the playwrights' lines, which have neither the sparkle of the drawing-room nor the hysteria of the melodrama, but flow along calmly, with occasional light touches in a vein that could be found in any Army office. Kennedy, however, makes these lines extremely effective by never appearing...
...think our society is stable or mature enough not to be taken in by the quasi-sophistication of the film. Condoning marital infidelity in a humorous vein may go by the boards as fun but please consider the subsequent anguish, mistrust, and havoc it may provoke in the hearts of many married men and women. A RADCLIFFIAN--CLASS...
...less subtle vein he might have added...