Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, hour after hour, day after day, men hunted in the wreckage for bodies. Effingham's business all but ceased. At the morgue, men & women moved with a stunned matter-of-factness-one woman, looking for her baby, stared at a small, charred body and said, "No, he was smaller" in the same tone she might have used if she were shopping. The funerals went on for days...
...Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most of the time Miss Walker is on stage she is "simply in stitches...
...second feature utilizes another famous team, that of Olivier and Leigh. "That Hamilton Woman" is supposed to be the love story of Lord Nelson and the wife of a British ambassador in Naples. It is also beautiful acted, staged, and directed; unfortunately the fact that it was written during the Battle of Britain is too obvious whenever politics is mentioned. The script is almost pure propaganda in places. However, beyond these perhaps picayune details, "That Hamilton Woman" is an entertaining movie and an excellent piece of work...
...Adele, who believed them when they told her they were married. Perhaps if they had gone to a more impersonal place, the original plan would have worked out better. But Adele's apartment was a home, redolent of strong emotions. In it lived Adele, a tough-faced old woman, "all leather and insomnia"; her husband Ugo, a gentle soul who felt in his bones the sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions to Italian women. It was a house where one could...
Captured Weapon. In Atlanta, attendants at Grady Memorial Hospital ministered to a woman whose husband had hit her with a rolling...