Word: frighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slug went through Al's clothes, made him jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied the soft, warm, white, middle-aged flesh of his right side. Al just had time to realize he was being killed. He kicked out in such convulsive fright that he broke the chair's metal footrest. Then he lurched up in adenoidal agony and knocked over a bottle of bay rum. The two men who were killing him went placidly on with their work, and when Al crashed to the floor he was a pleasantly scented cadaver...
Brothers in Law is the thin story of the mis-adventures of Roger Thursby, fresh from barrister school and afflicted with stage fright when he enters a court-room. Roger, played by Ian Carmichael, shares chambers with another fledgling barrister, named Henry Marshall (Richard Attenborough). Together they pursue not only their legal careers, but an upstairs professional model by the improbable name of Sally Smith...
...Fright at the Station. What made the difference was a contract from famed cubist Art Dealer Henry Kahnweiler, who still today says of Sculptor Manolo: "I think he was greater than Maillol." Manolo discovered the charms of the small town of Céret near the Spanish border, and was soon surrounded by vacationing Montmartre friends, including Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris. But though living in the midst of early cubist experiments-French critics called Céret "the Barbizon of cubism"-Manolo would have none of it, once snapped at Picasso, then at work on his cubist Accordionist...
Free as a Breeze. City Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze...
...velvet seats in the National Assembly to hear what Premier-designate Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury had to say for himself. Alone on the bench where tradition requires candidate Premiers to sweat out their ordeal, youthful (42), high-domed little Bourgès-Maunoury had an attack of stage fright...