Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HAPPY HOOLIGAN -Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Hildegarde Withers, the school-teacher whose detective powers have for many years shamed Inspector Oscar Piper of the New York police, visits Hollywood, where broken necks are becoming too common on a movie lot. Miss Withers' own neck is almost wrung and Inspector Piper flies to the rescue...
...gives away his position to the natives by firing at a ghost. The story is simply that of the destruction of the Emperor's nerve and arrogance and of his inability to escape from the sins of his past into life of happiness from the riches he has wrung from the natives...
Back in London after barnstorming for a month across Australasia, Noel Coward told countrymen that his one-man war agency A.E.A. (An Englishman Abroad) had raised ?10,000 for the Red Cross. Duty done, Patriot Coward, who reckoned he had wrung 1,400 hands a day during his concert tour, now hoped "my brains are of more service to my country than my body...
...that darkness the battered, drained and dry-wrung people of London still reveal their incredible fibre. They have endured Puritanism, mercantilism, industrialism, sinking physically, among the nations of Europe, from the first grade to the third. But Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great Fire, and it now turns the worst rage that modern war can wreak into just another trial to be confronted. In confronting it, Londoners have rediscovered their chief racial faculty, once wild, now disciplined: a casual, bottomless courage...
This he has done since he was 18. By the time ailing Fuad I died in 1936, the Wafd and other constitutional nationalists had finally wrung a return to parliamentary government from him. Before Farouk had been King two years he took advantage of a Wafd split and nominated his own ministers. Soon afterward, with the support of religious leaders and impoverished fellahin, he made Egyptian policy his own. One day it looks pro-British; another, pro-Italian; but it is always pro-Farouk...