Word: garfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Force of Evil (Enterprise; MGM) takes a long, unfavorable look at the numbers racket. Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very...
...rest of the 32 U.S. Presidents-with the exception of William Henry Harrison and Garfield (both of whom died shortly after taking office) and Harry S. Truman (whose term is incomplete)-were listed in lesser categories...
...Garfield) Bromley Oxnam is a chunky, solid, strong-voiced prelate of 57. He looks and dresses like a prosperous businessman, but his leftish social views got him listed in Elizabeth Dilling's The Red Network. Among the assets he brings to any enterprise are his organizing and administrative ability. He applies both to his personal life so formidably that there is never a paper left on his desk or a question left unanswered in any committee over which he presides. Says Theologian Niebuhr: "He gets through a meeting faster and better than anyone I know...
...Royalistics, Imperial Lords, Fangwoods, Cobras, Mysterious Five, Mutineers, Bachelors, Turks, Olsen Gang, Egan's Rats, Frenchmen, Over Dukes, Walkie Talkies, Socialistics, Comets, Redskins, Bowery Bums, Shamrocks, Commanches, Clashers, Bucks, Aggies, Forty Thieves, Rapiers, Red Devils, Lisbons, Champs, Trojans, Coriettes, Tiny Tims, Dragons, Jackson Knights, Vladecks, Bowery Boys, Braves, Garfield Boys, Navy Street Boys, Sand Street Boys, Red Hook Boys, Jolly Stompers, Redskin Roamers, Coney Island Boys, Beavers, Bishops, South Brooklyn Boys, Avon Dukes, Chancellors, Penguins, Robins, Nits...
...keynote of Christian unity was struck, and ringingly struck, by New York's Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, in the Episcopal Address. The Episcopal Address, prepared and delivered by one bishop, but edited and initialed by all of them, is a kind of party platform. It indicates the position of the Church's leaders and the direction of the Church's thought. As Bishop Oxnam's address showed, that position is advanced, the direction forward...