Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshal Douglas rescues a salty old rustler (Walter Brennan) from being lynched as a murderer, and starts back with him to distant Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt...
Symington then dipped for a bigger fish, and brought up Frank Prince, 54, assistant manager of RFC's central loan office, and a distant cousin of Alabama's party-giving Representative Frank W. Boykin, a millionaire Congressman whose standard line of greeting is "everything's made for love." Two years ago the Mobile Paper Co. asked for a $750,000 RFC loan. To get it, said Papermaker Reuben E. Hartman, he had to turn over 40% of the company's stock, with a par value of $640,000, to children, brothers and friends of Congressman Boykin...
...looked as if the estate might yet go to the third heir, a distant English cousin named David Bennett, who could have it if the others rejected it, and provided that he agreed to change his name to Gape...
Ramrod Discipline. Today, under the superintendency of Major General Richard J. Marshall, distant cousin of General Marshall, V.M.I, stretches out over 300 acres, a place of fortress-like tan stucco-covered buildings, looming towers, and crenellated walls. V.M.I. still takes a fierce pride in its ramrod discipline. All cadets live, four to a room, in two adjoining barracks, kept always in inspection-ready order. Uniforms are hung on racks (there are no closets), cots are stacked each day, rifles and sabers are racked against the walls. The day officially begins with breakfast formation at 7 a.m. From then on-through...
...Take one distant century-say the 16th-and take it seriously. Add one princely husband, admiring and dull; one bride, beautiful and devout; one young lover, handsome and ardent. Stir the ingredients in a batter of love-at-first-sight and courtly ceremony; cook over a slow fire of virtue, grief and remorse; then sprinkle with fragments of broken hearts. This basic recipe for romance or rubbish is served up cold in Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves...