Word: invalids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional history and books about the past glories of Morocco...
...literate, but unsponsored, example of the relaxed "Chicago school" of TV. This year, cut to 15 minutes and tricked out with a sudsy dramatic line, Hawkins Falls seems more intent on impressing its. sponsor (Lever Bros.) than its critics. But even with the added heart tugs of a bedridden invalid, a runaway boy and a self-sacrificing wife, the show keeps enough of its original flavor to be better-than-average daytime TV fare...
...shown her mastery of the peculiar demands of airy farce. Cornell, Bankhead, Hayes and Lawrence will not have to give way to Barbara for a while yet. But the quiet radiance and well-trained competence that Barbara had brought to Broadway was enough to give the fabulous invalid plenty of hope for the day when her elders might retire. "Barbara has a terrific future in the theater," says Moon's Director Otto Preminger. "She has a brusque honesty and an instinct for the stage that is very rare...
...investigators broke the first rule of polling. By inserting a "rider clause" at the beginning of a question ("Desiring peace, I believe..."), the investigator forced the student to subscribe to a belief which was irrelevant to the main question. It is not surprising that the poll was declared invalid by "a faculty member who asked that his name be withheld...
...rantings. (He called the Pope the "anti-Christ," Jews "Christ-killers.") When Kunz continued to rant, the city pinched him, in 1948, for preaching without a permit, and fined him $10. Ruled the Supreme Court (8 to 1): conviction reversed; such ordinances as New York City's are invalid because they give the police commissioner power to control "the right of citizens to speak on religious matters." ¶In 1949, Irving Feiner mounted a soapbox in Syracuse to drum up a crowd for a Young Progressive club meeting, began shrilling such comments as "President Truman is a bum," exhorted...