Word: hellion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Labor Party who received the mild-looking lawyer into their ranks in 1929 could not suspect what a political hellion he would turn out to be. His militant leftism reached a climax when, in the years 1937-39, he tried to ally Laborites with Communists in a Popular Front. The Labor Party booted...
...line: "We are the champions and defenders of the middle class." Other Communist leaders: ruddy, rotund Florimond Bonte, 55, clerk's son and charter party member, is the Communist foreign affairs expert. Tall, devious Andre Marty, 59, an International Brigadier in the Spanish Civil War, is the party hellion...
China Student. The career that was to take him to Asia began in 1883. Florida-born, Yonkers-bred Joe Stilwell, at 18, was sent by his doctor-lawyer father to West Point because he was something of an adolescent hellion. Young Stilwell would have chosen Yale. During World War I Lieut. Colonel Stilwell served in France. Back in the U.S. at war's end, he felt a cold wave of pacifism welling up over the country, asked the Army to send him abroad, far away, anywhere that he might sometimes enjoy an occasional martial mixup...
...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that everyone at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of chrysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...
...they had to pump blood out of the cellar before they could finish the third act." At 13 he played lead in Peck's Bad Boy, He was always part of The Four Cohans-once voted the most popular act in vaudeville. Cocky and conceited, he was a hellion in his youth. "Great actors are born," he said once. "I know. I was born...