Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acts are one long mad scene as Renata pursues the count through the back alleys of her subconscious. Along the way, there are magic potions, a séance, rattling skeletons, a furry sorcerer and assorted gnomes to contend with. Even Faustus and Mephistopheles, coming on like a netherworld Frick & Frack, get into the act. Mephistopheles produces a bouquet of flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery...
...first call for the right of negotiation belongs to Kansas City," said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick...
LOCKOUT, by Leon Wolff. The bitter story of the Homestead Strike in 1892, in which workers struck against the lethal working conditions at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's second-in-command at the time, retaliated with a hired army of Pinkerton men; in four months of hostilities 35 were killed, 400 injured. When the strike was finally broken, men who were not fired went back to worse conditions and slashed...
Died. Childs Frick, 81, Manhattan art patron, whose coke-and coal-rich father Henry Clay Frick built a $5,000,000 mansion on Fifth Avenue ("I'll make Carnegie's house look like a miner's shack!"), stoked it with $50 million worth of art, and left it to the public as the Frick Collection, which his son supervised as trustee since 1921; of a heart attack; in Roslyn...
...Thumbs. The town of Homestead settled into a state of siege regularly interrupted by violence. An anarchist from New York, Alexander Berkman, inflamed by newspaper accounts of the strike, came to Homestead determined to assassinate Frick; one day he managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...