Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motion the largest amphibious military operation ever attempted-not excepting Xerxes' expedition against Greece (1,000 boats, 200,000 men). Now for a few hours he had to live with the bleak inner loneliness that comes to a commander when he has made his cast and must wait for the fall of the dice, wondering whether he has anticipated everything, what will go wrong, how well reality will fit the shape of his intricate, painstaking plans...
Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age. For years Director Ernst Lubitsch has been able to see more light touches in his cigar smoke than ever appeared in his scripts, and this Technicolored fantasy is no exception. The Lubitsch approach brings comic relief to such weary devices as the French governess, the son who is altogether too much like his wayward father, and the final personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate...
...band is fine, but just how you'll get back to Cambridge is your worry (I hitched, but don't tell the War Department.) Art Hodes, an you probably know unless you're reading this just to deaden that wait on the chowline or because you're one of my room mates (noidle remark; at the last census in D-41 McKinlock we were ten, not including a mysterious joker who floats in now and then to read PM and The New Republic), well, Art Hodes is one of the old Chicago gang that learned its jazz from the great...
...their shots Friday with a vengeance--flank movement with merchurochrome, pincers of tetanus and typhoid, and out. But the worst was yet to come, whispered the mob, just wait till it hits...
...unluckiest lad of all is Bob Brooks of F. Off to the Isle of Man and a cold climate goes our super scholar. But wait, look at the statistics! Present population of the Isle of Man; males, 6,000; females, 28,000 (under 26); babies 2. My God, Brooks you better take up the art of self protection...