Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln spoke ("Here one is buried") when, as President-elect, he bade goodbye to his Springfield neighbors. Third son William Wallace was a blue-eyed "blessed angel" and his mother's favorite. But Thomas, the baby, was Lincoln's special pet. Scanning the large head and slim frame of the infant, Lincoln dubbed him "Tadpole...
...election year it is perhaps unrealistic to ask a Congressional committee to frame constructive legislation. Yet the country may at least hope that the Joint Committee investigating the alleged fraud of the Al Serena Mines will eventually tire of exchanging the traditional partisan accusations of "smear" and "collusion." Perhaps it could then consider legislation of long-range concern for all Americans. The Committee might determine just why public land laws must continue to undermine the Forest Service's conservation program by allowing "mining companies"--real or contrived--to devastate our forest heartlands...
Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...station platform to greet them with bouquets of white chrysanthemums were hundreds of officials and theatrical personalities, backed by thousands of unofficial well-wishers. First of the all-Negro cast off the train was John McCurry (who plays Crown). McCurry stretched his 6-ft.-6-in., 265-lb. frame and muttered, "This is T-shirt weather in Minnesota...
...chance to try out with a commercial band. But Schwiefka (Robert Strauss) is not letting go, and neither is Frankie's wife (Eleanor Parker), a demented leech who is systematically eating his heart out. While the wife bleeds him white, Schwiefka sets up a frame. Frankie finds himself in jail on a bum rap. In return for one night in the dealer's slot, Schwiefka bails him out. Frightened and discouraged, Frankie is an easy mark for the needle of Louie, the dope peddler (Darren McGavin), who suggests that just one little fix is all he needs...