Word: kris
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry M. Blackmer had developed the habit of getting richer every year. He parted his hair in the middle, wore pince-nez, had a dignified squint in his right eye and cheerfully endured high starched collars which would have turned the blow of a Malay's kris. And he enjoyed spending money almost as much as stuffing it away in bank vaults...
...materials were there. Outstanding on the line have been the Stocky, powerful right guard Bill Rosenau and guard Pete Coyne. Tackles "Kris" Kristopick, Troy Sitter and Nick Callahan and Bob Tolf and Ralph Bender at the wings bolster the forward wall...
...mouth of the Congo in February 1887. The party consisted of eight white officers, some 600 Zanzibaris, 60 armed Soudanese, four Syrians, 13 Somalis. During part of the journey it carried a wealthy slave raider named Tippu-Tib, "gorgeously clad in silks, a jeweled turban and jeweled kris," with his 96 relatives. Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted. Stanley led the expedition by sounding a piercing whistle, "a kind of marine foghorn with a huge gong." While Stanley...
...villainous psychiatrist maneuvers Kris into a sanity trial, during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent. By the fadeout, not only the courts of New York State but 20th Century-Fox itself are ready to insist that there really is a Santa Claus, and that Mr. Gwenn...
...also preaches a strangely ambiguous moral. Kris Kringle inveighs against the commercialism which has perverted Christmas. But most of the wit and comedy in the show, all of the logic, and much of the sentiment, endorse the idea that faith, honesty, kindness, magnanimity and the innocence of the imagination are chiefly to be respected because no other kind of investment pays off a fraction so well, in hard cash and at the voting booths...