Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First the mother tried turpentine in an effort to unseat the unhappy girl, but she became convinced the paint was 100% as advertised...
...popped irrepressible M.P. Emrys Hughes to ask what amount Rees-Davies had charged the girl for his professional services? "Never mind about that," snapped the barrister. The gleeful Hughes then accused Lawyer Rees-Davies of also living on the girl's earnings, and the House rocked with laughter...
Hearst's Bob Considine, who went to Cuba during (but independently of) Castro's flamboyant "Operation Truth" freeload for the press, ably and sharply stuck to the truth as he-not Castro-saw it. "The girl still could not identify the villain of her story," wrote Considine, covering the stadium trial. "Her head turned past him several times, and each time the huge jury in the arena would gasp 'Oh!' " Not all experienced observers had such clear eyes. Glowed the Chicago Tribune's Dubois, who could not overcome his Castro partisanship and his relief...
...Hayes sweeten the role did not find the Maggie of their memories. "Maggie isn't so virtuous," says Siobhan in her rich resonance, the native Gaelic just a thin inflection away. "She can be a bloomin' bitch. I could play her all mealymouthed, the poor little rich girl, but I don't see it that...
...Denis O'Dea, a dental student turned actor, and their ten-year-old son in a four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed as Maggie Wylie last week belongs in large measure to Siobhan McKenna. Says she: "I'm a party girl, but if I have a hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples: ¶ On Catholicism: "I believe every word." ¶On money: "I'll never sacrifice myself on the altar...