Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There he is!" As we left the building we were surrounded by a group of what we correctly took to be the picketing Coke workers. "Hey, kid, do you know what a picket line is?" one of the men asked menacingly...
...support from the 17,000 Aluminium shareholders. Portal promised a sizable dividend boost. In a final desperate gesture, Portal called in 14 leading old-line British banks, who claimed to control 2,000,000 of Aluminium's 9,000,000 shares, to help in buying more shares. The banks said they would pay $11.48 a share for one-half of each stockholder's holdings if he would keep the rest three months, i.e., until the fight was over. This only made stockholders madder, since it showed that the original price to Alcoa had been much...
...life of Jean Lafitte, the corsair who became the terror of the Western seas in the early years of the 19th century, then turned patriot and won pardon for his men by helping Andy Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. But somewhere along the production line, C.B., now 77, gave the reins into younger hands. The picture was actually made by Producer Henry Wilcoxon, a onetime star (The Crusades) and longtime assistant of the great man, and by Actor Anthony Quinn, DeMille's son-in-law, who in The Buccaneer has taken on his first assignment...
...never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything in Babbitt. There are sharply accurate glimpses...
Skate trouble sent Jerry Toppazzini to the bench while his line was operating, and Coach Milt Schmidt called on his spare forward, Dutch Reibel, as a replacement...