Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, who was himself to spend a lifetime looking for the blue bird, home seemed the least likely place on earth in which to look. As a dreamy young lawyer in Belgium's bustling, businesslike city of Ghent back in the 1880s, he longed to get away beyond the city's narrow horizon with its slowly turning windmills. On the margins of his law books, he used to scribble ethereal verse about shining knights and gossamer ladies...
...bachelor who receives visitors at odd hours, La Pipelette can keep a discreet tongue in her head-for a consideration, of course. For the brave young couple on the fifth floor struggling along on nothing a year-well, La Pipelette might act as baby-sitter for one evening, and there would be no charge...
...Never Knows. For years, department-store credit managers, income-tax investigators and the parents of the girl engaged to the young man upstairs have come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received at rent-collecting time, at New Year's and for special services. Even the Paris police call on her for information. During the war the Resistance used the concierge as a perfectly positioned spy. Allied airmen shot down over France were passed safely across Paris from one concierge to another...
Within this belt ranged Nationalist demolition teams, blowing all bridges that might be used by enemy vehicles. Long columns of weary, bedraggled infantrymen plodded back from the front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said...
...Revenge" was made several years ago at a time when Italy was at its lowest in both morals and morale. Heads of families were finding it almost impossible to earn a living wage and still be honest. The young boy in this film makes more money on the black market than him father does in a factory. The sister takes to jitterbugging and wearing black-lace drawers. So when the Italian soldier comes home, the plight in which he finds him own family can be taken as somewhat typifying that of Italy at the time. "Revenge" was intended to carry...