Word: hara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes an innocent guinea pig for the medicos. Unfortunately the play itself had a tendency to drag between high moments and a habit of making its points over and over again...
...were set in a Chinese vase, the Yoshida Liberals brooded and concluded that defeat was sure. At 1 p.m. on the 13th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the Liberal Party made its decision: to resign before a vote. It remained solely thereafter to inform Shigeru Yoshida, and to lay the hara-kiri knife of resignation before him. The party's chosen emissary for this work, a hawk-faced man, turned pale at the prospect of facing the old autocrat, but complied...
Laughton's gusty humour has had an amazing durability. His co-star, Maureen O'Hara, might also boast of her consistency throughout the years. Jamaica Inn proves conclusively that she was just as inept in 1939 as she is today. In the role of an Irish lass whose innocence is only overshadowed by her muscle, Miss O'Hara's acting is a pantomime with words...
...Hollywood, a studio movie set was swept for action as red-haired Maureen O'Hara, wigged to her knees, prepared to re-enact history's barest bareback ride in the title role of Lady Godiva of Coventry. After the set was cleared, all that remained were 14 film technicians (eleven of them women), no outsiders, not a single producer...
...Frank Hurburt O'Hara, 66, onetime director of drama at the University of Chicago, the story was much the same. At the tiny (600 students) College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, O'Hara laced his lectures with anecdotes about the great and near great of U.S. letters, was credited with tripling the enrollment in the American literature course. To O'Hara, the feeling was apparently mutual. Said one friend after his return from Idaho: "I've never seen him so full of steam...