Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both a halo and a forked tail go with the headline-catching role of chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Every chairman from Martin Dies on has been a white knight to part of the public, an inquisitorial fiend in the eyes of another part. By last week the new committee chairman, Illinois' Harold Himmel Velde, had managed to dent his halo and seemed firmly hitched to his forked tail. Velde's trouble: too much talk, too little caution, not enough political horse sense...
Perry recalled that: "I saw Santayana some years ago in Fiesoli, where he was visiting his fiend, Charles A. Strong. Santayana was, at that time, living in a hotel in Rome, and I remember his saying, with some pride, that months would pass without his speaking to anyone except the headwaiter. It was evident that he prided himself on his solitude...
...rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...
...City, the other in Westchester, N.Y. What with dashing from one wife to the other, delivering lectures and churning out dime novels, he had little time for his favorite refuge-an Indian tent on the outskirts of Stamford, N.Y., where he wrote a tract titled "Woman as Angel and Fiend." He was also, he claimed, founder of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, vice president of the Patriotic and Benevolent Order of the Sons of America, and a pillar of the Order of Good Templars. When he relaxed his temperance so far as to be unable to churn...
This is a selective gift for a selective camera fiend. Imported from Germany exclusively by the CRIMSON CAMERA EXCHANGE, at 1300 Massachusetts Avenue, this collapsible tripod grows from 8 1/4 inches high when folded to 45 inches when the seven sections are fully extended. It sells for $8.95, is light weight and easy to carry...