Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with flyers as a leader who would fly anything they could. Promoted to a big command early in World War II, he led his Blenheim bombers on one more mission, was shot down over France. He slipped away from the Germans three times, once killing three captors with a knife and the butt of a sentry's rifle, another time impersonating an Irish Republican Army man (and spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general's bed, watched from the bedroom window the Nazis' parade...
...effects. Examples: a skeleton hanging on a wall that suddenly begins to sing and flail its arms; a scene where Mephistopheles throws a small boy on a table, carves him up and swallows him (in the Venice production, the boy actually disappeared in a flash of light as the knife descended...
Behind the Trappings. For a Prussian prince, Wilhelm began life in 1859 with a crushing handicap. He was born with a crippled left arm and rapidly picked up the inferiority complex that went with it. He was afraid to ride, used a special knife-fork gadget at meals, and exercised his right arm relentlessly to make up for the weakness of the other. As if one physical handicap were not enough, he suffered from a "scrofulous" ear sickness that made a court physician advise an insurance company not to write a policy on his life. Later, many highly placed Germans...
...cache. Numskull Shelley, who does not believe the money is there, falls for Mitchum's hell fire because she thinks she will find a spark of romance behind it all. But Preacher Mitchum, who thinks sex and painted women are an abomination, really wants to get his switchblade knife on Shelley's two small children, since they are the only ones who know where the loot is hidden...
...about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly that before Arcangelo makes a proper pass at her, she completes it. She finds that adultery, which should disturb her gives her a knife-edged joy. Arcangelo is "one of the three best poets in Italy," and through his eyes she sees the glories of Florence and Siena, and in his arms plumbs depths of awakened passion Arcangelo commands (Neddy had never given her a direct order), he is fiercely jealous and he refuses...