Word: vigilantism
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The operation, which took about an hour and a half, was interrupted at 2:30 a.m. by a vigilant night watchman who put the quartet to flight. They escaped down a fire escape, howling and whistling in defiance.
Senator Mundt wants to protest the American people from misrepresentation by Communist organizations posing in charitable disguises. So these organizations will have to open their records to public scrutiny in the Attorney-General's files, and carefully announce that all their letters and radio programs are Communist-disseminated. After years...
Vigilant though the prowl squad boys may be, they never get to know Mr. Brophy and his back troubles the way Patrolman O' Malley did. One day they may mistake Mr. Brophy for the hunched-over attacker slinking from the scene of the crime and all hell will break loose...
All fantasy, as E. M. Forster has said, "asks us to pay something extra" by way of credence or adjustment. In addition, this particular fantasy boasts far better symbolism than it does story. But The Enchanted is saved from any allegorical pallor or patness, from any insistent contrast of illusion...
Greta Garbo, who has ducked behind floppy hats, napkins and even her own hair to keep out of newscamera lenses, was bested by vigilant photographers on a Manhattan dock as she arrived from France (see cut).