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...wish-you-were-here postcard from Coney Island. The rifled dispatch case? When the four villains rummage through the Englishman's box, they find nothing but a letter to a minor colonial official and a hot water bottle−and are humiliatingly caught in the act to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Wray was trying to sell the A.F. of L. to everybody, and he wasn't doing it for nothing," McNamara said Thursday; "so we put it to him: 'Resign or we'll boot...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Wray Lashes Out At Union Charge Of AFL 'Sell Out' | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

...trying to sell the AFL to everybody, and he wasn't doing it for nothing; so we put it to him. 'Resign or we'll boot you out," the Weld Hall janitor and HUERA president said...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: AFL Launches Drive for University's Employees | 3/5/1954 | See Source »

...extravagance that accompanies thoughtless sinning and specious repentance provides the film's humor while a pack of servants contribute the low comedy necessary for most pieces of specific sophistication. As high seduction reigns in the drawing room, the boot-black corners the chambermaid in the kitchen in mocking counter point...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Rules of the Game | 3/2/1954 | See Source »

...ceremonial public appearances of Paul Magloire are always kingly. Usually he is in one of his uniforms (cost: $300-$1,000 each), which variously employ the old-fashioned trappings-the plume, the spurred boot, the epaulet and the aiguillette. His manner, too, is regal; one aide carries his special, seven-inch cigars in a leather box; another stands ready to hold his gold-headed cane like a staff of office. A vast, burly man-he stands six feet and his chest measures 44 in.-Magloire carries off his formal appearances with unerring dignity. When on parade he is being what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Bon Papa | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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