Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had a re-run yesterday for which Chenery, probably unnerved by the whole thing, never showed up. Preston, who an hour before the race thought himself too ill to row, beat Schaal home by more than a length to qualify for the compromise class of the six championships this afternoon. The first race is at 3 o'clock...
...fury, and if it weren't written and acted by idiots, it would seem a lot more real, and a lot less fun. Scene the Best: Laughton, fawningly in love, tries to show wifey he's the strongest man in the kingdom, and takes on a wrestler, only to beat him, and then have to be carried away himself. Toughest problem of the picture: which is the more pathetic, Henry Tudor or Charles Laughton trying to be Henry Tudor? There are a couple of obstacles to be overcome. 1) Watching Laughton laugh, and 2) watching Laughton eat. However, some people...
...spread through a land which had learned to expect an eye for an eye. Panicky Jews prepared to flee from Natanya. British troops grew sullen, angry, dangerous. That night, in Tel Aviv, British soldiers on foot and in armored cars lashed out in an unsoldierly demonstration. They smashed windows, beat Jews, fired Sten guns into a crowded bus. Five Jews were killed, 15 wounded. Next day, at the funeral for the five dead, mourners and police clashed again. The toll: 33 Jews injured. Said one resident of Natanya: "This cancels out the two sergeants...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors, he had "no time for the contemplation of the navel . . . no desire to translate the editorial 'we' into the imperial 'we.' . . . The one-man editor is going to be guilty sometimes of bad and muddy writing. He must sometimes beat a hasty retreat into trivia if he wants to get home to dinner. If he confuses himself with the editorial staff of the New York Times, he is going to fill his page with half-baked opinions...
Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...