Word: nabobs
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Interloper. Meanwhile, coony oldtime Producer Sol Wurtzel, formerly 20th Century-Fox's nabob of the Bs, had an idea. Long ago he realized that what he lacked in high budgets and Washington connections could be made up in speed. He has already completed, for Fox release, a Nazi spy chase called Rendezvous 24. While not strictly an atom-bomb picture, it deals with German scientists who tried to blow up Paris by radio-controlled atomic energy. It may conceivably pass, in the sticks, for the veritable atomic gospel...
...young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch and scorn, and the elderly, harmless-seeming nabob is in savagely at the climactic kill. The hyperpituitary ex-convict, incidentally, finds his lost lovely at last...
...North Atlantic. Canada's is a small-ship Navy, greater in numbers than in gunpower: 20 destroyers, 45 frigates, 100 corvettes, 60 minesweepers, Macdonald said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher and Nabob, but last week Britain was rigging two cruisers to go to Canada's Navy as gifts. Fifty smaller ships were building at home in Dominion yards...
Some 30 years ago young Novelist E. M. Forster sat with his friend, Philosopher Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, in the palace of the Maharaja of Chhatarpur and heard the nabob cry: "Tell me, Mr. Dickinson, where is God? Can Herbert Spencer lead me to him, or should I prefer George Henry Lewes? Oh when will Krishna come and be my friend? Oh Mr. Dickinson...
Like the English adventurers in India for whom the term nabob was invented, craggy-nosed Banker Larkins had little trouble getting his actions legalized. He never held office himself (for $100,000 in 1875 he could have been appointed Senator from West Virginia), instead let others do his dirty work. He was the biggest frog in his puddle until a bigger, ruggeder individual-spare, pale-eyed, nonfictional John D. Rockefeller-splashed down beside him. Mr. Rockefeller wanted Mr. Larkins' refineries. "The Standard Oil Company has been called a combination," said Rockefeller's envoy. "We prefer the word alliance...