Word: laurels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest count this week Quirino was clearly in, with nearly 1,125,000 votes. Laurel was second, with about 930,000, and Avelino a limping last with nearly 237,000. It seemed certain that Quirino's party had gained clear-cut control of both houses of the Philippine Congress...
Quirino's chief opponent was rabble-rousing, Yale-educated José P. Laurel, the islands' puppet President under the Japanese. "If collaboration means helping your people to live and survive," said Laurel on the stump, "I would do it over again." Through the campaign Laurel worked desperately to rid himself of a reputation for being anti-American; he never quite shook it off. He also made much of his personal honesty, which Filipinos accept. But between the Quirino and Laurel machines, Filipinos had a Hobson's choice. No one doubts that Laurel's followers would...
...dinner progressed to Turkish coffee and pears, the conversation switched to the movies. "American film industry is very fine," Tito remarked, "but sometimes we find the films a little foolish." I asked him about his favorite films and he beamed: "Cowboy films and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy." I asked him if he liked Charlie Chaplin. "Modern Times," said Tito, imitating the scene where Chaplin goes berserk and runs around twitching two wrenches. "He has made several since that one," I said. "In one he imitates Hitler." "You mean The Great Dictator?" inquired Tito blandly...
...screen crisis in the life & love of one of the cinema's top-ranking stars. In an announcement from Rome, Actress Ingrid Bergman, drawn and upset, told the world that she was quitting not only her twelve-year-old marriage but also her lucrative and laurel-sprigged movie career...
...scores of other contests came off in style. The Big Balloon, an undersized young hawker in the piazza of San Cosimato, won 20,000 lira (about $35) for his exceptional fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...