Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...border guards after he flashed his credentials (his do-it-yourself World Passport 000.001). Bounced back to West German cops, Davis responded with lectures on world citizenship when asked for proper papers, pettishly tore up his passport and mewled, "I don't want to go back to those evil men" when ear-bent cops threatened to toss him back to the border guards Numbed by the nonsense, the lawmen in advertently let Davis flit free long enough to hold a press conference ("German ground is sympathetic to my ideas") bagged him again a few hours later, then nailed...
...seen that story in The New Yorker?" queried one of his friends with an evil grin...
Melville Cooper, Jack Hollander and Guy Sorel have the proper slickness for the evil president, prospector and baron. The large number of supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...
...modern-minded new Premier, Habib Bourguiba, 54, was obviously not going to tolerate the antique dynasty for long. Gradually the Premier cut down on the royal prerogatives. Two weeks ago, Bourguiba announced in a weekly broadcast: "The hour of reckoning will come. The country cannot continue to suffer evil in high places...
...brand of exaggerated, wildly allusive humor. The first sketch was a pleasant conceit about a hot block of "tuned sheep," whose neck bells rendered a spirited version of Lullaby of Birdland. The second, "Incident at Los Veroces," was a live sermon about the self-destruction "of a thoroughly evil city" that is as revealing of Freberg's Baptist upbringing as of his zany imagination...