Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Character Actor J. Carrol Naish. As he has many times before, Actor Naish plays the menace, an Italian-American gangster. This one takes pride in his rise from a slum to become a silent senior partner of politicians; he has his own sense of fair play as well as foul, and there is enough mellowness in his menace to make him a semicomic figure. Naish's creative playing progressively fills out his sketchy role until the gangster becomes the film's most convincing human being and, curiously, its most likable character...
...antics foul up the necessary examination of the past mistakes of the Truman-Acheson foreign policy...
...hundred yards down on the Common which blared out a hellfire revival sermon. That and the heckling finally seemed to break him down. His voice cracked as he yelled, "I get up here to teach the true faith and I get called every dirty rotten filthy name that your foul minds can think of. People try to disturb me. they come down here and call me Mr. Feeney"--then someone shouted from the crowd, "Even that's too good for you." Feeney yelped back, "That's Protestant evangelicism for you," and the crowd laughed...
...skeleton of former Radcliffe tutor, Miss Irene Freuder, was examined yesterday by Dr. Leo T. Myles, medical examiner, to find whether foul play was involved in the death of the 64-year-old teacher...
...Foul Shot. In Milwaukee, as the Washington Park Zoo's prize hippopotamus opened its mouth wide for the audience, spectator Jerome Fischer got all set, wound up, heaved a beer can right into the yawning jaws...