Word: keelhauled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
There were rumblings of mutiny below decks, and up on the bridge the skipper heard them. Joe Curran, strapping (6 ft. 2) president of the salty, swashbuckling National Maritime Union, wanted to keelhaul a few of the hands who had first boosted him up from...
...airlines had flown 15 months without a fatal crash. This week, as Pilot Scott was buried, fellow airmen recalled their warning, given to the President by the airlines and the Air Line Pilots' Association, and echoed by Senator Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA law: that to keelhaul a successful agency was to invite disaster...