Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Categories. Still incensed, Bill wrote another letter-this time to The $64,000 Question. "It was an ill-mannered one saying that I thought all quiz programs were dishonest." The show replied by sending him an entry blank. Taking the precaution to fill out the form, he sent it back with another blistering letter. These tactics, oddly enough, won him a personal interview. Bill announced that he was an expert on literature, but could see that his interviewers found this fairly dull...
...Blank Sense of Pain. Dreiser the secular tragedian lurched toward the apocalypse of revolution like a blind bear shambling to its cave. When he joined the Communist Party, he wrote William Z. Foster that it was the "logic of my life...
This glum and clumsy man, who sometimes seemed to be making animal noises rather than writing prose, is still able to make the reader share his blank sense of pain. The U.S. has never been patient with its pessimists, but to square accounts with a Dreiser, mere optimism is not enough...
...that last period Captain and goalie Charlie Flynn made 12 of his 33 saves, several of them on shots from point-blank range. His fine performance was as important to the victory as the Crimson's three late goals, because it broke the Tiger spirit...
...started firing away. Everybody ducked for cover and I got so scared I ran up my buddy's back like a window shade." Accused as the cat with the difference: Negro Bistro Singer Billy (That Old Black Magic) Daniels, 40. Daniels, to whom it was "all a blank," was soon free on $2,500 bond. But the victim, a 33-year-old drifter, slightly wounded in the shoulder, was jugged as a material witness, with bail set at $5,000 (later halved to the amount that sprang Billy). At week's end, Daniels, his local cabaret entertainer...