Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phonograph blared martial music, Columbians stamped up & down, looking baleful and clenching raised fists. Secretary Loomis, in a crew haircut, excoriated Jews, Negroes and the "alien element." President Burke, speaking with an affected English accent, presented a "medal of honor" to 17-year-old James Childers, just released on bail for allegedly blackjacking a Negro...
...when Victor was freed (on 20 million CN dollars bail, or U.S. $6,000), he gave little credit to the prayers of his own followers or of John's. The Soviet news agency Tass, jubilantly reporting the Archbishop's "liberation" and a service celebrating it, said Victor told "thousands of believers": "Behind us like a cliff stands Soviet power...
Hanratty had other troubles. He was jailed by Mounties on charges of forcible entry and obstructing the police, then was released without bail. He was confident that no Ottawa jury would convict him for finding houses for vets. Cried he: "The Government will find it has a tiger by the tail." Nevertheless, the week's events had cooled him. Evicted from his own home last week, he settled with his wife and two-months-old son in a Lansdowne hut. But he called Mayor Stanley Lewis first, got an O.K. before he moved...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
Month ago Fisher aimed a haymaker at Idaho's Democratic Governor Arnold Williams, sneered that he "will no more enforce the laws than he will climb to the top of a flagpole to eat his lunch." Next day the Republican Statesman used an entire editorial column to bail out the Democratic governor and bawl out its free-swinging columnist. Vardis Fisher quit in a huff, looked for another soapbox. Last week, readers who really missed him had to buy a tiny upstart weekly called Statewide (circ. 5,000). Fisher and his new editor were getting along fine...