Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps's Major General George Brett, who announced that Army planes would swoop in mass formation over struck plants, to show strikers "what they are working for." Congressman Dies, who has cried "Wolf!" so long & loud that he has almost turned public sympathy against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, croaked incessantly of Communists, demanded the purging from labor of all Reds. In Washington, an Army officer wagered even money that the first target of U. S. armed forces would not be enemy troops but U. S. citizens...
...Last summer, while she was playing at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., she married tall, dignified Theatrical Producer Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 38, son of a late Hood Rubber executive' who headed the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1924. A short time after the wedding Gertie got a congratulatory cable from England...
...aircraft began going downhill fast. I slid back the hood and began to get out, my goggles were shipped off and my helmet began to lift up in the slip stream; I realized I hadn't undone my straps so I pulled out the retain ing pin and stood up, standing on anything which came handy (the seat, the instrument panel or the stick, I don't know really...
Milquetoast by day and Superman at night, Tyrone Power outdoes Doug Fairbanks' earlier characterization of Diego Vega (alias Zorro), the Spanish Robin Hood of sixteenth century California. He rescues peasants, puts villains to the sword, and woos fair ladies with swashbuckling bravado. But porcine Engene Pallete steals acting honors as a he-man parish priest who crosses himself with one hand while wielding a wicked cudgel with a other. Basil Rathbone, who dictates to the local Franco, meets the just desserts of sneering down a long nose; and Linda Darnell drops in just long enough for two kisses...
...inclined community on Kyushu Island, he was raised in the "school of heroes" of Miss Takaba, a unique female warrior who wore two swords and swung two hot little fists. In his youth Toyama evaded and broke successive apprentice ships, embarked on a self-righteous outlawry something like Robin Hood's, and about 1894 established the foundations of the Black Dragon Society...