Word: devours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal-mining and farming town of Carmarthen in time for the Rebecca riots of 1839-44. Strapping young Jethro, the book's hero, joins the night-riding Rebeccas-angry farmers who black their faces and wear their wives' nightgowns to raid the hated tollgates, which devour profits on produce taken to market...
...most of the first reel the spectator sees nothing but financial tentacles, as a vast holding company stealthily envelops a small plastics manufacturer (Dean Jagger) and prepares to devour him. Then all at once the head and center of the conspiracy appears, and lo! it is not really a monster after all. It's a tall, dark and handsome young fellow (James Garner, better known as TV's Bret Maverick) who is rich but honest, smart with a heart-a sort of beatified billionaire who suffers terribly because he "can't make anything but money...
Keyed Up. In Richmond. B.C., learning that a church was to be built near her mink farm. Mrs. Anna Sierpina hotly objected on the grounds that "unfamiliar noises" like hymn singing might cause her mink to devour their young...