Word: millhand
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Dean Martin is a handsome, 31-year-old ex-millhand, ex-pug and ex-croupier in a casino, with a post-Crosby baa in his baritone. The zanier half of the comedy is furnished by Jerry Lewis, a 23-year-old with horse teeth and a bangtail bob, who is probably the most precocious comic to come out of the wings since Milton Berle was a Wunderkind. Young Jerry already has good control of half-a-dozen comedy styles. He can deliver a gag, dance & sing, play the sappy adolescent ("If I go wit' girls, I get pimples...
...film tells of an Irish girl of the 1870's (Greer Garson) who becomes a servant in the home of a mill owner (Donald Crisp) whom her legless, ex-millhand father (Lionel Barrymore) hates. She watches over the mill owner's stuffy, weak or shallow children (Dan Duryea, Marshall Thompson and Marsha Hunt respectively), becomes a bosom friend of his wife (Gladys Cooper), and falls in love with his one worthy son (Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage...
...candidates were Roosevelt men. Maybank's opponents were both natives of the plebeian "upcountry" which had ruled South Carolina since 1890. Former Governor Johnston, born in a sharecropper's cabin, once worked as a lint-head in the textile mills. Representative Joseph R. Bryson was once a millhand too. Burnet Maybank called at the White House. When he left, he was authorized to announce that South Carolina would get two more fat power developments: a $28,000,000 project on the Savannah River, southwest of Charleston, another at Lylesford, northwest of Columbia. A week before the primary, Burnet...
...Skunk Meat." Had it not been for Planter Greene's timely intervention, Millhand Jones might have been the first person to be lynched in the U. S. in 1938. There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators...
...than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar Ben Sawyer," was barely beaten. Olin Johnston, a quiet-spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved his connections and platform manners, ran again for Governor last year. This time, having promised voters a reformed Highway Commission and the immensely popular $3 automobile licenses which Governor Talmadge...