Word: walrus
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...Invaders," newest celluloid to glorify the democratic way of life, brings to mind that part from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that goes: "Four other oysters followed them, and yet another four; and thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more--all hopping through the frothy waves, and scrambling to the shore." This particular oyster tastes a little different from "Night Train," "Man Hunt," "Mortal Storm," and "Confessions of a You-Know-What Spy," but it is unmistakably of the same brand of sea food...
...best written editorial pages on the Pacific Coast, it is authored by three closely geared individualists, with a neat division of talents. They write in a tradition founded by such rugged journalists as the Oregonian's famed Harvey W. Scott, an erudite, walrus-faced editor who prowled the office in stocking feet for 40 years, and by Albert Hawkins, ex-cabin boy and coal-heaver, who liked best to write about education, science and Pacific Northwest history...
...rainy, misty evening in Washington, 20-odd years ago, a tall, frail, aquiline man was striding hurriedly home for his punctual 7 p.m. dinner. Turning a corner, he bumped spang into another hurrying stroller, a large, portly man with walrus mustaches...
...humble hat-check girl with grand-opera aspirations, Deanna is yanked to the bedside of a dying tycoon (Charles Laughton) by the old walrus' son (Robert Cummings), who has mislaid his new fiancée. Of course the old man recovers, and the substitute fiancee has to continue her role until the young man falls in love with her and makes it permanent. The picture is a blend of amusing horseplay, bright dialogue and tears, with a noticeable...
...Fortnight ago he took the centre of the stage, in the title role of Donizetti's Don Pasquale: a waddling, foolish old party, so much put upon that when he got slapped by a soprano minx he touched real pathos. Last week Baccaloni waddled again, this time as walrus-mustached Sergeant Sulpice in Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment-and his reputation was made in Manhattan...