Word: bret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testimony in a case last spring, Itkin was warned by parties unknown that if he made any further appearances, his wife's two sons by a previous marriage would be "crippled." Itkin naturally expected the usual protection to be granted to the two boys, Scot Hersh, 12, and Bret, 11. But so far this has been refused. The biggest obstacle has been the opaque logic of the Westchester County Family Court, which at one point sanctioned security arrangements for the youngsters. That decision was inexplicably revoked after 29 days. Three county judges have ruled separately on the case, rebuffing...
When you read about Mark Twain's Mississippi raftsmen and pilots, or Bret Harte's Western gold miners, they seem more remote than the cannibals of the Stone Age. The reason is simply that they are free human beings...
...century. It was the expansive age of oil and railroad fortunes and of Horatio Alger; young, middle-class men everywhere were ambitious, eager to make money. The Post captured their readership with such articles as "How I Made My First Thousand Dollars" and with the masculine fiction of Kipling, Bret Harte and Jack London...
ROAM THE WILD COUNTRY, by Ella Thorp Ellis, illustrated by Bret Schlesinger (Atheneum; $4.25). A South American story of horsebreaking with a 13-year-old hero...
Next day Strick denounced Festival Director Robert Favre Le Bret for his "barbaric, arrogant and intolerable action," and later announced that he was withdrawing the film from the competition. Le Bret replied that only the British film delegation could remove the picture, and that it was still in contention for the festival's top prize, which will be awarded this week...