Word: whirlwinding
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Return Home. Five weeks ago the Russians returned to the Crimea, in a whirlwind ten-day drive swept to the walls of Sevastopol. There, Stalin's chief of staff, big, brilliant Alexander Vasilevsky, paused. When the final blow came it had to be hard and fast...
...them-the greatest polo feat of all time. With Devereux Milburn, he accelerated the game. He turned what had traditionally been a defensive position (No. 3) into an aggressive one. He turned a short-passing game into a fast, hard, long-walloping one. He was a whirlwind at infighting, and probably the most powerful and accurate hitter of all time...
...super-talent scout (Rosalind Russell) is used to earning commissions as handsome as she is. But when the film begins she is having trouble locating a bunch of brawn adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...
Before long the girl-shy Whirlwind, drunk with love, is as friskily unmanageable as a brontosaurus in a bridal suite. (Good scene: his Dionysian rumba with exhausted Miss Russell in her apartment, to ear-cleaving radio music, deep in the night.) Meanwhile the Honest Man (Brian Aherne), who is writing Miss Russell's profile, loafs around with his hat jammed on (to prove he is a journalist), befriends the bemused Whirlwind, sneers at double-dealing Miss Russell, grabs her the instant she betrays a dawning sense of decency...
After a three-month whirlwind Bond-selling tour of Mississippi towns (eating the best food at the tables of the best citizens), Roscoe Mayo Holdeman was taken into custody by the FBI. Holdeman had spent one year in the Army as a flying cadet. Last June he was given a medical discharge. He had never been outside the U.S. Unimpressed by his record as the smoothest, fastest, most effective bond salesman in Mississippi, the FBI locked ex-Cadet Holdeman up on charges of impersonating a U.S. Army officer...