... an air of a Fortress Armed against What Ere May Befall. By the time you are halfway up the stairs, your heart (or strictly speak ing mine because I am Susceptible to Atmosphere) is beating like a sledgehammer, and masked figures lurk in every shadow. That ...

... wonder if ever you met Gruber Not personally, I admitted. But I was several times on the fringes of the crowd when he was speaking. On the balcony of the Gruberhof, in the Sportz- arena. I looked at him squarely. You must have been told by many people ...

... received an educa tion at a second-rate public school, but his parents, obstinately styling them selves Pfiil, continued to speak imperfect English and lived in a villa at Yeovil, the family place in Somerset It was once a not uncommon pheno menon for ...

... you when you could shoot him twice when once was enough. No hope for you ever, no hope. But though he was speaking aloud he was really speaking to himself all the time. The killer only moaned faintly as he stirred in the untidy heap he made. End ...

... nation alities clock in, and that's not the half of them. No indeed. There's Miss Ameri ca, who haunts this tale by her be speaking of men as if by right. And Miss South America, too. There was a girl at the U.N. con course in Paris eighteen months ago ...

... though she s asking for directions. Now they seem to be jabbering away at each other. Give her her due, said Lester. She can speak the language perfectly. I expect she's asking if this is the Embassy, and if it will be in order for her to call, and would ...

... ubiquitous secur ity police, the terrorized passers-by who threaten Fairbanks's escape, a new reality. Jack Haw kins, although speaking the imaginary Vosnian with a palpable English accent, is a fine figure of a Balkan tyrant's burly henchman. But although ...

... Big Lift. A tough American sergeant (Paul Douglas), who begins by pushing Germans off the Berlin pavements and refusing to speak a word of German, ends by applymgtostay athis post in order to remain with the fraulein (Bruni Lobel) he has de-Nazified so ...

... the bars, stretched his arm round the front and tried to get at the padlock. -Fortunately he could not Teach it. Generally speaking, when a Chim panzee is over five, it might turn savage at any moment, and some are subject to sudden brain-storms. A HUMAN ...

... this side of the Iron Curtain. I have also to report, with regret, that in A Day with Brumas the little one is allowed to speak. He has a twee ickle itsy-bitsy voice and if cinema proprietors are worldly-wise they will arrange for their usherettes to ...

... confessed to. However, their major worry is that blue riband phrase which was coined, as is well known, by Lord George Bentinck, speaking to Dis raeli in the Commons library. Dizzy didn't think it particularly good, but it caught on with thoughtful racing men ...

... but, when the gong sounds at Sydney and Melbourne and Adelaide, to say nothing of Brisbane, these Queensberry Rules, so to speak, are not always quite enough. But we anticipate as the legatee observed, while lifting 16 ropes of pearls from the testator's ...