Word: arrowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since William Tell shot the apple off his son's head with a single well-aimed arrow, showmen the world over have made a risky living by pinning their partners' clothes to the wall with a motley collection of cutlery or by snapping off cigarettes, held aquiver in their partners' lips, with spears, rhino whips, bullets and blowgun darts...
Chrysler, which has lagged behind the style parade, this week showed off a pair of new low-slung experimental models, the Plymouth Belmont and the Dodge Fire-arrow. Though Chrysler sold 1.6% fewer cars (1,224,000) last year than in 1952, it still leads the horsepower race with its 235-h.p. engine. But its conservative styling has not helped sales, and it has already been forced to cut back production of some of its 1954 models. To remedy the situation, Chrysler Corp. expects to incorporate some of the ideas of its racy experimental cars in a complete model change...
...knight on the town. ¶ Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd) and The Far Country (James Stewart) take place in Canada and Alaska, are called "northern westerns" by Universal-International. ¶ War Clouds (United Artists) is notable for a sequence in which the whiteman hero (Rory Calhoun), armed with bow & arrow, fights it out with a gun-toting Indian...
...story is as simple and deadly as the flight of a poisoned arrow. Its hero is Marius, a French sea captain who has lost his master's ticket for running a merchant ship into a known minefield during World War II, and whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...
...Peach & a Pear. One morning last week, the North Philadelphia station looked like five minutes to Judgment Day as some 1,500 happy and expectant followers of the two leaders waited for the Pennsylvania Railroad's Red Arrow bearing the Prophet. When it arrived, things nearly got out of hand...