Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby. The TV audience was cut in again just in time to see Gordon, already swabbed down, get his umbilical cord tied, his mouth drained of mucus and drops put in his eyes. Gordon's response: a lusty wail. For her pains, Mrs. Kerr got a $100 defense bond...
George had been at the bank for 35 years and was 53 years old. Out on bond, he had a hard time getting another job because to each prospective employer he confessed his crime anew. Last week, however, somebody finally took George's side. Toledo's Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb looked at the record of George's case and refused to sentence him. When poor old George began to weep, the judge cried angrily that the bank had "invited" him to steal by keeping him "a virtual pauper for at least 22 years of his life...
From then on, the bond of intimacy was broken. Claudel wrote to a friend that Gide seemed to him "simply an over-nervous person who has let himself go . . . and poisoned himself with medicine, philosophy and literature." Not without arrogance, he added: "We others, we Catholics, are built to walk dry-shod through the Red Sea." Today, at 84, Claudel has never changed his mind on that. Gide remained uncommitted until his death, declaring himself "neither Protestant nor Catholic but quite simply a Christian...
Hayden is very good as the martyred Hadley. He underplays a part that would tempt a lesser actor to pour on the bathos with one eye on the camera and the other on the Academy Award. Ward Bond is in the unlikely role of a soft-spoken but venomous prison commandant. Bond is usually loud-spoken, and someboy's best cavalry sargent. But he does not become rank conscious, and his promotion suits...
...soon as the company moved in to stay, in the summer of 1949, there was friction between those who owned the theatre and those who only acted. The theatre lost money at the rate of $400 a week, and during the following four years it floated stock and bond issues totaling...