Word: casks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Freeman Wills Crofts, 77, British railroad engineer who first tinkered, during a 1919 illness, with a detective novel (The Cask) that eventually sold 100,000 copies, turned to full-time writing in 1929 and produced roughly a book a year thereafter (Inspector French's Greatest Case; Man Overboard), most featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard; in Worthing, England...
...microscopic traffic. A few frames later the moviegoer may find himself staring at a luminous line of what seem to be huge purple carboys filled with a red-gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white worms before the watcher's eyes. Gourds bulge, flowers bloom, tomatoes blush. Best of all are the scenes of underwater life. The archer fish, with fearful accuracy, spits liquid arrows several feet into...
...When he died in 1805 on the deck of his Victory after Trafalgar, Lord Nelson was deposited in a cask of brandy for the long trip home. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank off the brandy is apparently apocryphal...
When the Philadelphia militia was called out in 1776, Peale, dressed in a brown uniform and black tricornered hat, and equipped with a sword, a musket with telescopic sights of his own invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads...
...Vanitas," a clever editing of the Harvard Review's remarks on individual Houses, is a biting comment on so called "House character." "The Cask of Amontillado: A One Act TV Adaption" raps the current television trend of insufficiently presenting the works of great authors. Sid Ceasar in Montresor; Peter Lorre plays Fortunato...