Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kings & Jeweled Chains. They come with a variety of symptoms. One lived in a dreamworld of knights and kings. Another, who had been a model child, suddenly went berserk, smashed every bit of glass in his home, disappeared for four days. A few had threatened suicide; one boy had stolen his mother's jewelry. One arrived wearing five vests, another brought 100 ties, still another came wearing a jeweled chain about his neck. One packed a loaded revolver, another brought along a stack of books on psychology. A few had religious manias, and one had the habit of setting...
...Richard Tyler fought in the Middle East, Dotty Tyler drove trucks and led W.A.A.F.s through physical training. But when a bomb blew up her mother's home and clobbered her collection of prizes in the process, Dotty determined to try a comeback. Even the birth of her first child did not take her mind off the 1948 Olympics. The Tylers were living with Dotty's mother, a former acrobatic dancer, who was only too happy to serve as baby sitter while her daughter worked out at the Mitcham Athletic Club. When the London games began, Dotty was ready...
...Moslems by the Koran and by the example of Prophet Mohammed. "These measures have been taken to better protect the home, the base of society," announced Premier Habib Bourguiba, an Arab who has but one wife, a Frenchwoman. He added that girls would no longer be permitted to become child-brides at 14 or less, that youths and girls over 20 need no longer get parental consent to marry, that male Tunisians must give up the right to divorce wives by telling them three times to go, instead must plead their cases in court...
...movie location in Spain, Italy's voluptuous Cinemactress Sophia Loren, unkempt and grimy, looked more appealing as a child of the earth than in more familiar rig as a child of luxury. While the cameras whirred, Sophia, in the role of a hell-for-dirt girl guerrilla, had just helped a motley band of actors drag a 3-ton artillery piece through rain and a morass of real...
Though the movie's plot is unnecessarily inane--giving one the feeling that it was released specifically for the American public--it will appeal to children, and to those who enjoy the sentimental story of a child's love for his horse. American producers have worked this theme over thoroughly in National Velvet and many similar films. Yet The Phantom Horse possesses a fresh charm. It is convincing and restrained, and never becomes maudlin...