Word: moll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muscle Moll. There is little question that Mildred Zaharias is still the world's top woman athlete. But she is no longer the rough-&-tumble tomboy (or "muscle moll" as some sportswriters preferred to call her) that she was in the days of the 1932 Olympics. That was an era when her specialties were baseball, basketball and track. Now trim, athletic and 32, she carries 145 Ibs. gracefully, wears silly hats, nylons and red fingernail polish when she dresses...
...read them, is on the road to . . .a liberal education." Some of the books Union men had borrowed for keeps: Andersen's and Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jane Eyre, The Decameron, Wuthering Heights, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Chesterfield's Letters, Art in the Armed Forces, Moll Flanders, Crime and Punishment, A Farewell to Arms, Isherwood's Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell...
...second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan laid out $5,000. Chief budget items: 1) a guidebook on local and state government written for the show by Historian M. R. Werner (Bryan, Tammany Hall), 2) three top scripters, topped by Frank Telford (Mollė Mystery Theater...
...nineteen twenties gangster-moll-machines gun picture has gone with prohibition. But there is no law against taking the same plot, putting a WAVE, WAAC or other chic uniform on the heroine, wrapping it in an American flag and feeding it to the hordes of wishful Miniver Cheevies who frequent the institution of the movies, Saturday afternoon variety or otherwise...
...practitioner of the gentle art of elimination is a handsome, green-eyed youngster named Alan Ladd, billed as The Raven. A hired killer, he likes his work, and is not above saying so. Having polished off a blackmailer and his moll before breakfast he returns the stolen poison-gas formula to the chemical-company executive (Laird Cregar) who paid him to get it that way, and submits to one question: "How do you feel when you are doing a job like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker...