Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rang peremptorily in the modest Hollywood home of Mrs. Elsie Thomas. Over 2,450 miles, her daughter's voice spoke raggedly in her ear: "Emory is going to kill us. He has a gun. Talk him out of this awful thing." Emory was on the phone. As she heard her daughter's sobs in the background, Mrs. Thomas begged him, with paralyzed inadequacy: "Please-be a good boy." Her son-in-law's tense voice came back: "It's too late, Mama, it's too late...
...mother in Hollywood was Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
...could have been an easy way to a pick up $4096. Just go to a few parties and meet people. Why, I even heard of a guy in New York who got in a $5 club and made enough to retire for two years...
...imagine "Faust" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" sloppily clad in a 20th Century plot, with Ray Milland as Beelzebub, and you get some idea of what "Alias Nick Beal" is about. And if you've heard the voice on that certain local radio station warning you "never make a dealllll with Nick Bealllll," you have the complete picture...
...seen him act (pose in this case in probably a better word), and D'Oyly Carte's Mikado never excelled him in evil expression. Handel's bass arias are distinguished for the acrobatics they demand. Tibbetts showed his complete competence, however, and some breath control that I haven't heard surpassed...