Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleep No More. In Philadelphia, Francis V. Me Michael explained to Magistrate John F. Daly why he smashed a hardware store window and stole six alarm clocks: he "had difficulty getting up in the morning."
Slackly written and strewn with loose ends, the melodrama is robbed of much of its inherent tension by overacting. But it has a variety of unpretentious and believable sets (notably those around its drugstore corner) put together by someone who knew sidestreet architecture and atmosphere. By even so modest a...
Recruiting for the expedition after the wealth of Cibola was brisk, and the viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was...
But Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists-mother & son. Above all, The Sheltering Sky is drenched with a fine sense of place, and it sketches Arab towns and the Sahara itself with sharp sureness...
Six years after he married her, Henry had Anne's head chopped off, and he began writing more sedate love letters to wife No. 3, Jane Seymour.