Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Gayden's plot is very much along the lines of the flock of stories growing out of Chicago's famous Leopold-Loeb case, the latest being Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rope." Most of these were successful because they contrasted the superficially impeccable manners and morals of bad boys with their actual criminal actions. But this boy is so obnoxious, on and off stage, that his nefarious activities are neither surprising nor particularly interesting. Gayden in one of the most thoroughly despicable people to appear on the stage in a long time. He's all right if you're entertained...
...Dimitrov has been the leader of the Cominform campaign against Stalin's Bad Boy Tito. Bulgaria's boss might have fallen into disfavor because the campaign had not yet got very far. Only last year...
This week at Virginia Beach's fashionable Cavalier Yacht and Country Club, the young dentist shot a two-under-par 67 in the first round of the Specialists Tournament, then a 70, and then a brilliant 65. His one bad round cost him first place by one stroke, but the $900 he picked up boosted his earnings for the year to $9,384 and moved him ahead of Sam Snead in 1949's money race. Says Middlecoff, who admits along with other pros that big-time golf is a tough way to make a living: "I wouldn...
Tarkington drove him on, read his manuscripts (Roberts read them aloud to him when Tarkington's eyes went bad), made improvements and changes which Roberts accepted gratefully. "On some evenings he'd stop me at the end of almost every sentence, and we'd examine that sentence and push it around and rephrase it, clearing it up and sharpening it and smoothing it: adding a little to it ... [I] suggested that if he really thought the book had merit, he let me put his name on the title page with mine and take half the royalties...
Smith's final discharge was unusually quick, when it did come. But now he describes his stay with near-longing in his voice, "It wasn't a bad life--if you didn't need any sleep...