Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody can guess how long it may drag on, how far Mau Mauism may spread, how infectious its example might prove to be. What thoughts pass through the minds of Samburu, Turkana, Wakamba or Masai tribesmen as they watch the white man harried by the hitherto despised and pacific Kikuyu? What thoughts down in Central Africa, where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya...
Light on significance, the play is also light on story: the angels tend to drag their wings here & there, and things are so topsy-turvy that it is the villains who eventually prove dull. But most of the time, under José Ferrer's deft direction, the show gaily ripples along. As angel-in-chief, Falstaffian Walter Slezak is steadily delightful...
Although she may shudder at the new silhouette, the whole vast field of Accessorizing is still open to Radcliffe girl, why should she drag herself to Filene's basement when she can so easily succumb to the lore of a fashion magazine? The right accessory can turn a trump into a Mamie Eisenhower, a Princess Margaret into a Loroli Lee, and add a few stars to the moonglow of a Cinderella...
Just who are these gangsters; these strong-arm ''preservers of American ideals" who can intimidate American businessmen so with threats of boycott (if you can't drag 'em off to jail, ruin their means of livelihood) that they are able to dictate which movies a free people will or will not see? ... Los Angeles is my home. I hope to return there when this mess is over, and when I again plunk down my buck for a loge in Grauman's Chinese Theater, I want to know I am seeing a movie the manager...
...dead), and laid the blame on Chicago's goonlike police force. He reported that some 2,500 companies (a "bluebook of American industry") had sent hireling spies into unions to infiltrate and disrupt organized labor. And, inadvertently, he provided Communist pamphleteers with source material which they still drag out to this...