Word: frights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coffin rises. Inside are five words: THIS IS RESERVED FOR YOU. The sound track takes over. "Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see a motion picture that may kill you. We guarantee free burial service to anyone who dies of fright...
...seen assassins shoot down his grandfather, King Abdullah, before Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock; legend has it that the boy stood erect and defiant as the King's bodyguard fell to the ground in fright. As a lad of 16, he had seen his mad father, Crown Prince Talal, removed from the throne. At 18, slight, down-mustached Hussein became King of the impoverished desert kingdom of Jordan. Most of his country's people-the 900,000 Palestinians incorporated into his kingdom after Israel became a nation-plainly felt no loyalty to King or kingdom...
...monstrous Lady Bountiful, Lynn Fontanne plays with a wonderfully enameled hardness, a high-styled fiendish poise. Playing Schill in a quite different style, Alfred Lunt gives a vividly realistic picture of human fright faced with the inhumanly frightening...
Commenting on his rejection, Claussen, who is vice-president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said, "they must live in a continual state of fright to be afraid of one applicant in a club of thirty members...
...nerveless ("I never get stage fright") old pro, London-born* Joyce Grenfell, 48, stumbled onstage by accident in 1939 as a sideline to a happy career as wife (to Mine Director Reginald Grenfell), a radio critic for the Observer, and sometime writer for Punch. She was dragooned into a London revue after a party performance. She later collaborated with Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter on BBC comedies, by 1955 had played outstanding bits in movies (Genevieve, The Belles of St. Trinian's) and her first solo revue in London...