Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearing with Capp in Sanders Theatre were Magda Gabor and Earl Wilson, author of "Look Who's Abroad Now." Miss Gabor, formerly from Hungary, announced that she is now an American girl herself. "American girls must watch the American man," she said. "He is out to conquest or conquer--you know what I mean?" The audience seemed...
...that so came to birth, find ourselves, too. living in a time dark with the shadow of dreaded war. It is a time, too, which has seen the institution of slavery-elevated now to the awful dignity of a political philosophy and inspired with the terrible ambition of world conquest-divide not a nation but the world against itself. And at this precise time again there has come the summons of the American people calling upon the Republican Party to redeem the hopes of the past and to save the promise of the future...
...decisive battles come the mop-ups; after the sagas of armies and divisions come the stories of death in lonely corners. The Survivors, by Ronald McKie, and The Boat, by Walter Gibson, have a minor historical importance in that they fill out the sorry tale of the Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies in 1942; but the strength of both books lies in their accounts of how a few score men and women confronted death...
...wears a black skull cap and translates Horace, he has used a number of pen names: Martin Clifford, creator of Tom Merry of St.. Jim's; Hilda Richards, creator of Bessie Bunter; Ralph Redway for the Rio Kid; Peter Todd for Herlock Sholmes; and Owen Conquest for Jimmy Silver. But mostly, Charles Hamilton is Bunter's creator, Frank Richards. "To relatives and bankers and the inspector of taxes," says he. "I am still Charles Hamilton; to everybody else, including myself, [I am] Frank Richards...
...made-for Hollywood-the daring decision to let Shirley, who was unknown to moviegoers, play in the movie the same role that she had already played to perfection on Broadway. She flew to the West Coast, shot the movie in a single month, and scored a complete and effortless conquest of the movie colony...