Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford tried, like Tolstoy in War and Peace, to bite off and somehow chew a massive chunk of social history. It was Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical mechanism in which...
...blonde, of course, melts under this treatment and adores Cagney; whenever he scores a coup against the law, she is as thrilled as a housewife whose husband has just gotten a raise. Then Cagney charms a flighty society heiress (Helena Carter) into eloping with him and, at her father's urging, plans to take charge of her $30 million. In a jealous swivet, the moll begins throwing things like coffee pots and Jeroboams of champagne, finally throws a couple of slugs into her wayward gunman. Long before that point, enough brutality, bravado and dime-novel sex have been ladled...
...military coup ended Vargas' 15-year regime, and the old man withdrew in good order to his ranch near the Uruguayan frontier at Itu. There he got into cowboy breeches and boots, and ostensibly retired from politics. Even after São Paulo's bumptious Governor Adhemar de Barros named him for a presidential comeback (TIME, June 26), Getulio sat on quietly at Itu. As election day (Oct. 3) got closer, the hottest Brazilian political question was whether Getulio still had his old magic, and whether he cared to practice it. Last week Brazilians found...
...greatest coup was forcing manufacturers to sell to him direct, a practice traditionally frowned on by them. By browbeating, cajoling and threatening to take his business elsewhere, Bill Levitt now buys even his television sets from the manufacturer, pays no middleman's fees. By his special building and buying methods, he saves $1,000 a house...
...such a deep freeze that it's not easy to dig him up." Then, on his radio broadcast last week, Winchell finished his buildup; he announced that he would turn Benedict Macri in to the cops that very night. About 10:50 p.m., a black coupé pulled up alongside the waiting columnist on a street in downtown Manhattan. After identifying himself, Winchell added: "Benedict, I am sorry to meet you under these circumstances." Replied nattily dressed, 36-year-old Macri: "I understand, Mr. Winchell. Thank you very much." Then the two walked together, past a thoughtfully posted Mirror...