Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jonesboro for her third try. But this time she faced four opponents, among them Congressman James William Fulbright, who is young (39), well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
...nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically hound its bearers through the deluxe hotels and low dives of Algiers, take part in a brisk auto-chase which winds up at the very time & place of General Clark's rendezvous...
Family Affair. In Manhattan, a homecoming merchant seaman, informed by customs authorities that it would cost $5 to take his lately acquired Russian wolf hound ashore, decided to wait a while, eventually forked over $30 for the wolf hound and her five brand-new puppies...
...hand except to be himself, is just that and accordingly walks away with the show. As a onetime vaudeville headliner reduced to the want-ad columns, a sort of daftly faithful hound for the heroines, this wonderful clown does little that is new except find his long-lost son, in the picture's funniest shot. But when, leering fiercely, he sings Inka Dinka Doo, or when, in hyper-Dostoevskian mental conflict, he confides Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted to Go, he gives pleasure of an intensity roughly equivalent to saturation bombing. Jimmy Durante remains living proof...
...walls hung eight profiles of hawk-faced Sherlock Holmes, a curved pipe pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull. Five orange pips lay on one table. On another stood a porcelain Hound of the Baskervilles. The guests raised their glasses, drank to Holmesian characters and places-"To THE Woman," "To Mrs. Hudson," "To Mycroft." Along with place cards, women guests found Holmesian cryptograms-a single red rose and a mysterious note: "Dear Miss -, See you at 2216. Sincerely, John H. Watson." In one corner Author Christopher Morley, in a hunting cap, peered...