Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight of the principles and ideals for which it exists. The danger is increased by the fact that liberty is being denied by those who profess to cherish it. Violation of conscience arises not merely in communistic territories, but sometimes even within the churches themselves. Not only do Communists imprison Roman Catholics and Protestants; Roman Catholics are ready to persecute Protestants, and certain Protestants, to a lesser degree, deny Roman Catholics and others full liberty...
...guileful, effortless Bing Crosby in the old Warner Baxter role of a happy-go-lucky racehorse owner-a part which fits Horse-Fancier Crosby as comfortably as the old clothes it gives him to wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges enough cash to turn a long shot into a Derby winner...
...patch-eyed Miss Cornell plays mistress to Spain's Phillip II and to two of his court members. Jealousy moves the king to imprison his ex-mistress and her third lover; but a third act scene, which is the play's most interesting, reunites the two lovers. By this time, they are much older: he is senescent and maimed; she is dying. The few minutes they spend together before he escapes from the country are touching...