Word: celling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss rang for a guard and Charnay, still protesting, was hauled away. But in losing his job, he won a reputation on the main stem as a man who could keep a secret. Charnay once posed as a murderer's attorney to get an interview in a cell at the Tombs, hid in a French actress' stateroom closet to get an exclusive story on her "life with Mussolini...
...York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
Correspondents leaped to fill in the comparison between the 1933 Hitler threat-which George Messersmith had recognized at first glance-and the present-day threat of Communism. There was no mistaking what George Messersmith meant. Like many another diplomat in Latin America, he knew that the principal cell of Communist infiltration in Latin America in the late '30s and early '40s was in Mexico, under the skilled hand of the late Constantine Oumansky. Like others, he now believes that the cell has shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA...
Both sides had planned carefully. Spanish Republicans had announced a "month of agitation" to attract U.N. attention to Franco repression. But the Caudillo acted first, suddenly uncovered for U.N. gaze a Communist cell conspiring in Madrid, claimed to have bagged the entire central committee of the Spanish Communist Party. He clapped some 70 persons into prison incommunicado. Next day, as if with damp fuses, 14 bombs burst belatedly in front of Madrid food shops...
...made his pile not by collaborating but by forging seven Vermeers and two Pieter de Hooches; one phony Vermeer he had patriotically palmed off on Göring (TIME, Sept. 10, 1945). To prove it, he painted still another "Vermeer," Jesus in the Temple (see cut), in his cell. It looked unlike Vermeer's cool, clean interiors, but did remind Dutch art experts of one of the master's few religious paintings: Christ with Mary and Martha...