Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Callaghan, a former railroad man in India, said he was her father, told delighted newsmen: "That's our daughter, and both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped to Hollywood by a talent scout. (MGM, which likes Johanna-Anna in her off-shoulder sari, first hedged, then admitted her identity.) Said Papa O'Callaghan huffily: "She never mentioned Mr. Brando in her letters...
...Welch and his photographer partner Grey Villet. I saw Grey holding his long lens out of the crowd's reach. I started over in that direction, along with the mob. A fellow asked me, 'What's goin' on?' His answer came from a stocky butcher-boy type who yelled, 'It's one of them nigger-lovin' LIFE photographers. Let's get him!' Butcher-boy seized my arm, pulled me along with him. So while Paul and Grey were trying to escape the crowd, I was in hot pursuit...
Branding & Broiling. Haunting the obsolete stockyards in his tweedy British jackets and Bedford britches, Billy soon gave the place a $2,000,000 face lifting, put in modern truck ramps, insisted to cattlemen that Chicago, not Omaha, was cow butcher to the world. For gourmets who patronized the yard's Sirloin Room he added a touch: they could pick and brand their own steaks before broiling. To expand the Prince estate income, he went into industrial research. One Prince project has developed a safe, cheap method of liquefying and shipping methane gas, which Continental Oil Co., in a joint...
...Buddha-faced, butcher-fisted Jim Richardson seemed by talent and temperament to have been a natural-born Hearst-man, he also had the luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act-to-be on his soul. In the end, he knifes his victim only to discover that he killed the wrong...