Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critics of the comics knew that strict enforcement of these conditions would put many of the 270 U.S. titles out of business. So did the publishers who refused to join in the cleanup. (Defending sexy and sadistic comic magazines put out by Fox Features Syndicate, one of its executives explained his publishing philosophy last week: "There are more morons than people, you know...
Deep Waters (20th Century-Fox) is a very mild movie about a lobsterman (Dana Andrews) who loves the sea, a state social worker (Jean Peters) who hates and fears it, and an orphan (Dean Stockwell) in her charge who gets caught in their crossfire. The boy loves the sea as much as Dana does; Dana is glad to take him on as an apprentice and even wants to adopt him; Jean does everything she can to keep him out of the dreadful trade...
Those were the days when Waugh was being one of the Bright Young Things later satirized in Vile Bodies. But Evelyn was constantly widening his connections with the country gentry. He took up fox hunting and began to give examples of a personal courage about which he is quite bland but which amazes his friends. They still wince at the thought of the dauntless little pink-coated figure dashing at fences and ditches that would unnerve more experienced horsemen...
...clumsy, big-nosed and dull-eyed, North dozed quietly while Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Chatham and Barre hurled at him some of the greatest invective in English. He admired their eloquence; sometimes he even applauded, but he regarded their speeches generally as so much windy verbiage. Though his ministry was corrupt, he was personally honest, went into debt, and wept in the House of Commons over his poverty. When he heard the news of Yorktown, he staggered as though shot, cried: "Oh God, it is all over...
Charles James Fox. Short and fat, harsh-voiced defender of the colonists, haggard from dissipation, he lost so much money at faro that he had to borrow from the waiters at Brooks's to pay for his meals. When he walked the streets, moneylenders, tailors and haberdashers swarmed around him dunning him for their pay. After he lost his fortune he set himself up as a gambler in his own right, became wealthy, bought race horses and got a new mistress. The Prince of Wales campaigned for his re-election to Parliament, and traded mistresses with...