Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
Over the mountains I go today...
...hours George and Anastasios fought off repeated attacks from the windows. George's wife begged him to leave while it was still possible to escape by the side cellar door and through the fields to town. George refused, but insisted that his wife go, taking the daughters with...
...film industry. His new code of film censorship: "No picture shall be passed [by the board of film censors] which lowers the moral standards of those who see it." Films must not contain any drinking scenes or obscene words, nor should gods and goddesses in the ancient Hindu epics go strutting about the screen clad in a light or frivolous manner. Cried one harassed producer: "If all these rules are enforced, 90% of our films [in production] will never reach the screen...
...case, the council's two-way verdict constituted a first-class tactical save for Nicaragua's strong man, "Tacho" Somoza. Tough Tacho, the only Nicaraguan who could have given the go-ahead signal for the Costa Rican adventure, narrowly escaped getting his fingers burned when Costa Rica invoked the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense...