Word: laurelled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Landlords and powerful business interests have a say in the Nationalist Party's affairs. Its leaders, old Senators Jose Laurel and Claro Recto, are stringently conservative men who will seek to harness some of President Magsaysay's primitive radicalism. Many with whom the new President must work are, for example, bound to resent it if Magsaysay pushes fervently a program of land reform...
...around the carousel and lances fiercely at the ring with a pudgy forefinger; he jangles vacant-eyed through a miniature scenic railway, slings a sledge as big as himself, whomps the nickel rockets grimly at the wooden milk bottles till they topple at last, and the victor's laurel-a limp paper lei-descends on his brow, and falls around his neck...
...pitched in with U.S.-style posters and buttons and such slogans as "I sigh for Magsaysay" or "Magsaysay is my guy." Almost until the end, there was some doubt whether the Nacionalista professionals would bow to the amateurs or attempt a last-minute stampede for their beloved leader, Jose Laurel. But Laurel, as he had promised, personally nominated Magsaysay...
Producer-Director George Cooper Stevens, 48, is a perfectionist who came up an odd way: at 19, he was the youngest cameraman in Hollywood, and his specialty was comedy (including 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts). Hal Roach made him a director (of shorts) in 1929, and Stevens moved on into feature-length pictures merely by stretching out his two-reelers. His first big hit was Alice Adams (1935)., followed by such topnotchers as Gunga Din, Woman of the Year, The Talk of the Town, A Place in the Sun, Something to Live...
...other time when she was pushed off a chair. At summer camp, she was forever winning the cup as the best all-around athlete. When she was a freckled, scrawny 13, she put in a solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel Beach (Conn.) from a far shapelier 18-year-old. Said Mary Jane: "They gave the cup to Ros for grit, not form." Learning the raptures of hard work, she plugged away at toe dancing until, after one long session, she could cry dramatically: "Look! My toes are bleeding...