Word: flashlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week trial, the McCormicks let her have her way. As for the parents, they are equally enthusiastic. Says Alma: "The only complaints we've had were good-natured ones from the parents of a couple of four-year-olds who've been reading under the covers by flashlight when they were supposed to be asleep...
Kraft Theater: Farley Granger was chasing Julie Wilson around the dress racks, but it was almost too dark for him to see her. "I must kill you," he snarled, a 2-ft. flashlight swinging ominously from his hand. "And all the bells in hell can ring, but they can't stop me." Then the script, something called Come to Me, by Robert Crean and Comic Peter Lind Hayes, called for tool Julie to "gasp audibly" and for demented, drifting Farley to "move forward catlike, impressed with his cleverness," shouting in a "lyric brogue": "There's a radiance...
...Manhattan park, met Abel later at a prearranged rendezvous in a theater smoking room. From then on, Hayhanen, Abel and a few underlings passed information and money to one another by using a variety of Hitch-cocky gimmicks. The agents slipped their material into hollowed-out coins, flashlight batteries, pencils and bolts, left them in such courier drops as a lamppost, phone-booth seats, cracks in concrete staircases...
...Plexiglas-topped convertible whisked the royal couple to Rideau Hall, official residence of Governors General, where that night Elizabeth and Philip received 600 newsmen and their wives. To one of his visitors Philip gave a level look and demanded: "Who are you?" "I'm the man whose flashlight bulb exploded near you," gulped the photographer. "I remember you," Philip laughed...
...repairman has long since won a special niche in American folklore. Depending on the circumstances, he ranks midway between the riverboat cardsharp and the village idiot, part freebooting buccaneer and part plain boob; or he appears, armed with screwdriver and flashlight, as a latter-day St. George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools...