Word: bins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever her predicament or hairdo, Actress Russell remains the triumphant embodiment of festive pandemonium and soignee wackiness. Hers is a delightful twining of farceuse and comedienne: she can give a drawing-room inflection to a loony-bin situation, or turn daffy or profane in the midst of playing a grande dame. To wonderful good nature she adds a few drops of acidity-juice from a sun-kissed lemon. Though Auntie Mame is really a one-woman show, Peggy Cass deserves mention as an unmarried expectant mother, and Polly Rowles as a stage star who has always started sleeping...
Firing off a reply, Belgrave discovered that the post was that of adviser to Sheik Hamed bin Issa al Khalifah of Bahrein, a 213-square-mile British protectorate composed of five islands lying off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. Charles Belgrave had never heard of Bahrein, but the pay was enough to get married...
...most influential and respected men in the Middle East and Bahrein a shining example of what Western techniques and money could do for backward nations. In gratitude for Belgrave's achievements, Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1952. Sheik Hamed's son and successor, Sulman bin Hamed al Khalifah, told a visitor: "We consider Mr. Belgrave to be not an Englishman but a Bahreini. He is my hand...
...stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned to the farm, paid up $400 worth of bills, tucked away the remaining loot between the walls of a grain bin. Two days later he went to a neighbor's farm to help shear sheep, returned to find police waiting. Said he sadly: "Bank robbing just isn't my line...
...doctors put him in an iron lung. Bit by bit the explanation came out: Charlie's mother-in-law had become angry with him, evidently wanted him out of the way so her daughter could marry a Groote Island aborigine. So, Charlie gasped from his iron lung: "I bin sung." Explained a fellow tribesman, acting as interpreter: "Him bin sung song of dreamtime snake. When you sung snake song, snake coils around legs and arms and chest, and you no longer breathe. If I bin sung, snake get around me, and I bin finished...