Word: mugging
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Flame in the Streets. "Jacko, you've got more principles than a monkey's got fleas." That's what the factory owner says, and any mug at the bench would say the same of Jacko Palmer (John Mills). He's the best man in the shop, bar none. He's a hard worker, a faithful husband, a devoted father and a loyal subject of the Queen. But first, last and always Jacko is a union man: first at every meeting and the last to go, president of the shop council since the year dot. What...
...auld mug," Sir Thomas Lipton lovingly called it, and the merry Glasgow tea baron tried five times to win it with his majestic Shamrocks, only to fail and die, finally disheartened ("I willna challenge again. I canna...
...local comic geniuses, David Cole and Kenneth Tigar, mug their way through minor roles. Cole is the comic Cockney, and very much so; and Tigar's beatific moronic grin makes him much the most memorable of Captain Brassbound's crew. The Captain himself is, alas, not so memorable. Tom Griffin looks dashing enough, but his voice remains as flat and as blurred as ever...
...perhaps rule once entitled students taking final or midyear examinations to have a mug of ale at the end of hour. This sympathetic seems rather anomalous for the old Puritans who supposedly made it. Perhaps even they, despite their conviction that "all work and no play sends Jack to Heaven," had some unconscious qualms about the examination system...
Whenever the child's hand touches something, the teacher takes the other hand and spells into it by touch-alphabet the name of the object: doll, water, mother, mug, spoon. The child imitates the hand motions, but does not understand. Yet repetition of touch-spelled words in a framework of discipline is the only way that a spark can ever jump the distance between imitation and imagination, so the teacher is rough and unsentimental. The child kicks and slaps, and the teacher slaps back. The famous ten-minute fight between them is fully as long and exhausting on film...