Word: keelhauled
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Yeah, me neither, says the reader, presumably a Frank Sinatra fan, elsewise he or she would be reading Margaret Salinger's book. Unlike Salinger, Tina isn't out to keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...Yeah, me neither, says the reader, presumably a Frank Sinatra fan, elsewise he or she would be reading Margaret Salinger's book. Unlike Salinger, Tina isn't out to keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...Apropos the shenanigans aboard the U.S.S. Constellation [Nov. 27], no matter how overlooked by blinded authority, beset by an inferiority complex or what have you, the actions of the men constituted mutiny-keelhaul...
...type, has music in his soul and wants to go to Paris to get it out. But his father (Leo G. Carroll), a rock-bound Maine sea captain, sends him to sea instead. When his father orders a second voyage, Chris does not tell the old man to go keelhaul himself, and then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side of his art; at a public...
Communist Parallel. New York's Oxnam was not the only Protestant leader to keelhaul Catholicism. In London last week, Professor A. Victor Murray, president of England's Congregational Cheshunt College, said: "Rome . . . believes itself to be the perfect society. . . . Anything that furthers its interests, political or social, as well as religious, is considered to be according to the will of God. ... It is this irresponsible influence of an internationally organized society, with its headquarters in a foreign country-in this way exactly parallel to communism-that makes the Free Church Protestant evangelical witness against Rome so vitally necessary...