Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tootles andSlightly, two orphan children; and Sydney Sturgess as Mrs. Darling. Chase Crosley makes a warm Wendy, though she is a bit too mature for the role. Gus Solomons, Jr. doubled nicely as Nana, the St. Bernard "nurse," and the crocodile who snapped off Captain Hook's right hand. His choreography, however, is rather colorless and insufficiently rehearsed...
...nuns and lay brothers. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Missionary Arkfeld lunged into the task of reconstruction, bought an English-made Civil Auster, then the first of three Cessnas, personally air-speeded material for the missions' rebuilding. In ten years of bush flying, he has become an old hand at perilous uphill landings and downhill takeoffs, slalom-like runs to avoid wild pigs on the runways, hedgehopping to stay under hanging clouds. Once one of the mission's three pilots was heard on the radio talking to a control tower: "I'm running into clouds...
...Richenburg: "To paint is to participate in a poised absurdity. It is the taking of the hand of tenderness into the fearfulness of aspiration...
...figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed and perfumed male of the era might choose from 50 shades of stockings with which to drape his shapely shanks. Some...
...volunteers, all former slaves and displaced since the Year of Jubilo when Mr. Lincoln set them free. Three, serving their second hitches, are semi-pro by their own, if not their lieutenant's, reckonings; the other seven include homeless kids, a mulatto misfit, an aged and ageless field hand with a whip-striped back. In the eyes of Lieut. Byrne -a D.P. himself, as the son of an evicted tenant farmer from County Galway-they are as motley as the loth Cavalry's moniker for the whole of Troop M: the Calico Troop...