Word: comandini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million pennies" drive to raise funds for a tiny community hospital and an appearance (1954) on TV's This Is Your Life; the TV audience ponied up $112,596, and roly-poly Kate became the subject of a sentimental biography, Doctor Kate: Angel on Snowshoes (by Adele Comandini), the name her wilderness patients had known her by for 25 years...
...With a Clear Conscience." Able Lawyer Federigo Comandini, who had been ordered to defend Koch, jumped up: "We renounce all witnesses for the defense." Public Prosecutor Granata shouted: "With a clear conscience I ask for the death sentence [for Koch] by shooting in the back as a traitor...
Said Defense Lawyer Comandini: "Were it not for Fascism, which encouraged political crime, Koch might have been an honest man. I have a photograph of him when a boy where he has his head on his mother's lap. That is the Koch I am defending. A lad gone astray under a tyranny which encouraged cruelty...
...ADELE COMANDINI...
...basis of any cinema at all can be construed as a tribute to the open-mindedness of Universal's Production Chief Charles R. Rogers. That the cinema involved should qualify as first-rate entertainment is a tribute to the finesse with which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress...
| 1 |