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...show is dished out by Master of Ceremonies Mickey Rooney. Kay Kyser's noisy faculty teaches I Dug a Ditch, assisted by comely Georgia Carroll. Bob Crosby's band backs Baby Basilisk Virginia O'Brien in In a Little Spanish Town. Benny Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pattern of Conquest | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

When big-time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...grumble over the conduct of History instructors, over the state of the walks in the Yard, and over the tarnished statue of John Harvard; they vilify their professors, and heap contumely on the unbowed heads of the goodies; of all the aspects of the College to come under the basilisk undergraduate eye, only the night lunch has survived intact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NIGHT LUNCH | 11/3/1933 | See Source »

...basilisk eye roams restlessly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARKING SYSTEM. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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