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...this respect Hein Heckroth, the designer, is the most outstanding contributor to the production. His settings and costumes are highly spectacular and yet are generally in perfect sympathy with the meanings of the film. At times Heckroth's display becomes a bit overwhelming, and his taste a little maudlin. Such is the case in the third act, which in other respects is also the poorest sequence. But as a contrast, the second act is a superb blending of decor, music, and dance...
Cagily, Estes Kefauver called O'Dwyer's bluff, made him hand over the "evidence" and then read it into the record. It was just a perfunctory bread & butter note from Tobey to a legitimate campaign contributor. The Senator's inexhaustible supply of indignation and tears boiled over. "I have lived long years and God has been good to me," cried Tobey from behind the green eyeshade he had clamped on his long, gleaming forehead. "I am a poor man and always will be. But there is one thing I am. I am a free man . . ." Tobey wept...
Perhaps the most familiar jersey on the field today will be number 31, belonging to West. This 203-pound, six-feet fullback alternated with Paul Shafer last season and was the chief contributor to the Crimson's lone victory (over Holy Cross) with his powerful plunges up the middle...
...Clerihew" is a verse of four lines of varying length in which the first two and last two lines rhyme. It gets its name from its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author (Trent's Last Case), poet, and contributor to the New Statesman. Sample "Clerihew" from a New Statesman competition...
...Strenuous Life. Despite the low rates, dime novels were written by some prominent pens. Buffalo Bill Cody was a contributor; Louisa May Alcott sold some dime novels to Beadle rivals. All sorts and kinds helped to fill the yellowbacks: an Iowa farmer, a temperance lecturer, an actress, a Philadelphia physician, a second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a parson's daughter...