Word: footless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind that helped produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing for the future as he for the past, proving most malleable as he is most...
Trying to live down the blood bath, the new government sent soldiers all over Baghdad with green paint to erase extremist anti-Western slogans. Photographs of violence (including pictures of the naked corpse of the Crown Prince hanging footless from a post, and the dismembered body of Premier Nuri being dragged through the streets) disappeared from shops. Strict orders were issued to the public against molesting foreigners. The violently anti-Western newspaper Al-Bilad was told to stop its inflammatory editorials; the radio kept issuing reassuring reports on the oil industry, whose refineries went on producing and whose foreign technicians...
...Footless Frenzy. On the stand last week, Burdett still sounded puzzled: "I was surprised it was all over." Actually, his spy career continued for two more years of footless frenzy and melodramatic bungling. As Burdett told it, he chased around wartime Europe waiting for orders that seldom came and contacts that he often missed...
Nobody is noble in these stories. These are the "maimed souls" and the ferociously maternal types whose footless magnanimity seems unfailingly to destroy those around them. In the title story, the fatal female is the grandmother who chatters, "People are certainly not nice like they used to be," and nags her son's vacationing family into driving off on a side road. Instead of finding the six-columned mansion she insists she remembers, they run into three escaped convicts who rob and shoot the lot, the babbling old feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell...