Word: hellion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation in Hand. Near Camp Lejeune, N.C., Acting Marine Sergeant Bruce K. Moore was fined $25 for spanking an eight-year-old neighborhood hellion merely because the lad had conked Moore on the head with a mud ball, tossed rocks at Moore's dog, got mud all over Mrs. Moore's newly washed sheets, gleefully winged stones into the toilet of the Moore apartment...
...Ransom of Red Chief (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Abetted by the network, Scriptwriter Phil Reisman Jr. has tampered inexcusably with O. Henry's hilarious tale of the kidnaping of a young hellion. With William Bendix, Hans Conried, and Mickey Rooney's nine-year-old son Teddy...
...house in Buxton, broods over Pascoe's mementos, stumbles to Pascoe's bed in Pascoe's pajamas. He dreams and, through a not-too-convincing display of Shute magic, becomes transformed into the Johnny Pascoe of World War I: an ace in the air, a hellion on the ground, the lover and husband of Dancer Judy Lester. Clarke's next dream carries him, as Johnny Pascoe, through the years between the wars, disillusionment and divorce from Judy, and love and tragedy with Brenda Marshall, a heroine as high-minded as himself. The third dream sweeps Johnny...
...glamorizes its products with names sug gestive of romance, adventure, passion: such foundation powders as Pond's Angel Face, Revlon's Love-Pat and Max Fac tor's Creme Puff; such lipsticks as Rubinstein's Red Hellion, Revlon's Fire and Ice, Helen Neushaefer's Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet...
Young Gerry, already a budding zoologist, was a bit of a hellion in this demi-paradise, but only because of his avid scientific urge to bring all the island fauna home. There was the day brother Leslie I went upstairs to bathe and found two snakes in the tub, and the day brother Larry started to light a cigarette from a matchboxful of scorpions. Gerry had been studying the scorpions' mating dance. The rest of the family had their own little idiosyncrasies to which, as his title suggests. Author Durrell pays his amused and amusing respects...