Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Bad Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose...
Nazis use food to smash their enemies in neutral countries, before trying military occupation. One technique: offers of huge foreign food purchases are suddenly concentrated in a single agricultural country; a fantastically high price is quoted; the offer is broadcast to the hard-pressed farmers, who in turn bring pressure...
God had created the rocky crags, the woods, the Ramapo mountain wilderness, the lake which the Indians had named Ptuck-sepo, 40-odd miles northwest of blatant, roistering Manhattan. But it was Pierre Lorillard (snuff & tobacco) who foreclosed a mortgage in 1814 and began to make this wilderness into a...
As he became more deeply involved in his crusade, Muñoz Marin became increasingly ironic about politicians. Once some social service workers asked him about the prevalence of homosexuality in Puerto Rico. "Can't be very popular," snorted the reformer, "or some political party would make it a...
Mr. Wolff's $25,000 worth of puppets, sets, furniture and props fill 27 trunks. His fee for a week's engagement: $1,500. So far the puppet opera has cleared enough to pay Mrs. Wolff's debts and mortgage.