Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Velvet Touch (RKO Radio) opens with a furious quarrel. A Broadway actress (Rosalind Russell), famous as a drawing-room-comedienne, wants to move on to roles like Hedda Gabler and to move out on her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames). He tells her contemptuously that he made her what she is, that she couldn't play Hedda for peanuts, and that if she leaves him he will publicize her Past. At this point Rosalind crowns the rotter with a statuette...
Chacun à Son Goûf. In Spartanburg, S.C., charges against Leon Burno were dismissed when Judge J. Wright Nash ruled that the law did not prohibit eating chickens "raw and alive...
Catch-as-Catch-Can. In Newport, R.I., the historic Old Colony House clock stopped when the hands scissored together, caught a somnolent starling. In Milwaukee, Leon Culberson stole second base when the umpire's mask caught what the catcher missed...
Lunging like a wounded bull, the South charged into action again. To Southerners, Douglas was a more obnoxious champion of Negro rights than Harry Truman ever was. They howled that the Douglas boom was merely an attempt to buy off the old New Dealers, who, under Leon Henderson, were the chief Douglas supporters. Snorted a. Southerner: "Douglas is just Wallace in black robes...
...ejido (communal land) politicos who often tyrannize the lives of the farmers; they promise the farmers absolute title to their little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman administration fired three governors and a raft of local officeholders, the Sinarquistas claimed the credit...