Word: fella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pistol, accidentally shot his own sideburns off. They became the prima donnas of horse opera, and sometimes it seemed as if they would rather pull hair than triggers. "Oh, Hugh O'Brian doesn't matter," Dale Robertson sniffed recently. "He's just a itty-bitty fella." And Hugh O'Brian is disgusted with Audie Murphy. When Hugh offered to bet $500 that he could beat anybody in Hollywood to the draw, War Hero Murphy upped the ante to $2,500 and demanded live ammunition for the test. Hugh did not press the matter. "Most of these...
Other stories range from the fantastic to the philosophical. Martin the Novelist is a Pirandelphic yarn in which characters search out the author and argue their rights and reality. The Wine of Paris presents a mad alcoholic, a most happy fella who thinks that other people are bottles of wine. With its cork-popping wit and full-bodied bouquet of pain, joy and wonder, Across Paris is vintage Ayme from a small but peerless literary vineyard...
...hearts and minds of Irishmen he was still "The Long" Fella"-the gangling, imperious young rebel commandant whose gallantry and skill during the Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view...
...goes that a British officer, after the surrender, kicked him in the backside and told him to go home because he was too young to have fought. De Valera's right-hand man for a quarter of a century, Lemass has managed to steer clear of The Long Fella's ancient political quarrels, concentrate instead on the practical business of government...
...said. I'd be will ing to let 519 papers go to hell if they want to insist on a right - which they do not have - to edit my copy." The Pogo balloon that Editor Colburn popped was only the beginning. Said Pogo a few strips later: "This fella said the thing to do when schools is padlocked or bombed is to open a speakeasy schoolroom near by." Albert the Alligator chimed in: "You open up a school, next thing you know all kinds of ignoramusses is comin' in ... They meets yo' daughter . . . Splits a orange with...