Word: hangman
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...what the hangman done...
Proportionately, the lesser the character, the meaner the line, as when the King of the Beggars says to Gringoire, "Good intentions never put an onion in your soup." And showing the effects of spotty scripting, the beggars' hangman, deprived of Gringoire's neck, laments, "It was such a nice neck." Comic relief of this sort seems out of place...
...trouble. When bluff, able Arthur Deakin, 62, the union's general secretary, marched into the hall, packed with 800 representatives of the union's truck drivers and milkmen, trawlermen and stable lads, home helps and gravediggers, someone reminded him that Nelson's flagship Victory, with its hangman's yardarm, was not far away. Deakin smiled grimly. "We don't need the yardarm," said...
...allegiance to the Red totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week the Communist bosses of Hungary degraded Judge Old along with some 200 other Budapest legal stooges, including the hated.Public Prosecutor J. Domokos. With the new Soviet, peace offensive in full swing, the period of show trials seems to be over-at least for the time being...
...reign of Louis XV, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) has enough romantic adventures for a couple of action movies: he makes love to the king's pretty daughter and to the voluptuous daughter of a recruiting sergeant, rescues the Marquise de Pompadour from highway robbers, escapes from the hangman's noose by the skin of his profile, brings about the surrender of France's enemies on the battle field by capturing their general staff singlehanded...