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...Coupvray, a village 20 miles east of Paris, it was an unusually busy day, and he was paying no attention to his three-year-old son playing in the shop. Then suddenly the child began to scream, and in an instant the horrified harnessmaker saw what had happened. The awl the boy had been playing with had slipped into his eye. By the end of that week in 1812, little Louis Braille was totally blind...
...Hungarian Communist, J. Peters, who switched Chamber' party pseudonym from Bob to Carl and shifted him from New York to Washington. To Chambers, Peters "enlarged on the party's organizational and human resources in Washington, mentioning, among others, the man whose name he always pronounced 'Awl-jur'-with a kind of drawling pleasure, for he took an almost parental pride in Alger Hiss. Then, with a little inclusive wave of his pudgy hand, he summed up. 'Even in Germany under the Weimar Republic,' said Peters, 'the party did not have what we have...
like the apteryx-awl...
Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
...trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wildcat...