Word: basil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cast in the role of Sherlock Holmes in Twentieth Century-Fox's forthcoming Hound of the Baskervilles was lean, long-nosed Basil Rathbone. Watson: Nigel Bruce...
Notably absent from the programs was the name of Colonel Wassily de Basil; notably present was the familiar trademark of Concert Manager Sol Hurok. Long-nosed Léonide Massine was still choreographer, still danced with his wonted spirit. But of the Ballet's four familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish...
...best thing in If I Were King is Basil Rathbone's acidulous portrayal of Louis XI as an unstable, peevish, medieval neurotic. The picture generally omits the few known facts of Villon's desperate, dog-eared life in favor of an elaborate fiction wherein he wins a war against the Duke of Burgundy, acquiring Frances Dee as his reward. Typical shot: Ronald Colman (Villon) and Basil Rathbone bowing to each other...
Purgee-designate was the man who has represented the Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created...
...Corcoran was born in Pawtucket, R. I. in 1900. His father's father was Irish (Presidential Purgee John J. and ex-Presidential Law Partner Basil O'Connor are distant Corcoran cousins). His mother's people were pre-Revolutionary New Englanders. His education, after Brown University (where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud...