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...peels at 8-to-8 in the tenth head as the skip stepped up to the crampit to deliver his iron. Up the ice with the soopers stood the vice-skip, Dentist Henry Hudson, his broom at the ready. Suddenly Dr. Hudson dropped his broom, clutched himself, yelled "I've been shot...
...picture Spencer Tracy would like to forget: Dante's Inferno, one of the worst big-budget movies ever made. After the picture she became a Fox Wampus Baby. But at that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull in Technicolor walked off with Zanuck...
...picture as accurate as possible they gathered mountains of data on costumes and furniture. When Artist Christy actually got around to painting the picture, he knew from warts to shoe buckles how every one of his historical sitters looked, except two. He made up a face for Jacob Broom; he painted Thomas FitzSimons with his face obscured by the upraised arm of a colleague...
...whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket a hard, nasty, grinding job, Ickes gets the assignment...
Next day through a shouting, hooting mob the tumbrils brought Robespierre and 21 colleagues to a hastily erected guillotine. Unlike Danton, Robespierre said nothing even when a child, "carrying a pailful of ox's blood and a whisk broom," stepped up to Robespierre's house and sprinkled the wall. "The crowd," says Author Korngold, "howled its approval...