Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
Serrano paled, stuttered: "What's the use of censorship in Spain? How did that book get here?" "In this book," the grim inquisitor continued, "the writer says you made some very rude comments about a friend of ours . . ." Serrano, recovering poise, interrupted: ". . . and of mine." "Our friend, Sancho Davila," said the visitor, "has sent us to see that you either retract and apologize or else. We give you exactly 24 hours to make your decision...
Bullets & Strain. Most of the best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear...
...youth in Ontario, Canada, he was repeatedly arrested for housebreaking and petty crimes, was thrice hustled off to reform schools. But three years ago in Montreal, he discovered that it was just as easy to steal a fortune-he coolly invaded the home of an aged gold-mine heiress, pushed her in a bathroom, carried off $75,000 worth of jewels...
...triangle situation luckily lacks the long passionate moments of hackncydom and Renunciation that inevitable turn up in homegrown productions. Instead of showing the audience that the analyst is cheating, "Mine Own Executioner" tips us off to the reasons and analyzes them...