Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post-Dispatch first dug up evidence purporting to prove that Big John Nick, head of the Motion Picture Operators' Union, had taken $16,500 from exhibitors to call off demands by his union for higher wages. With State Representative Edward M. ("Putty Nose") Brady, who was accused of acting as go-between, Big John was indicted...
Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
...nick of time, James Craig lets the animals out all over again. Miss Lane gets the skull when the volcano erupts, explodes and buries Mr. Ciannelli. Says Tom Fadden, patting the skull as Miss Lane and he drop leisurely downstream a few minutes later: "Old fellow, when we get back from this, you and I are going on a two-week bender...
...play shows everywhere a slackened rein. It lacks entrails, it lacks sense of direction, it offers no weightier message than that Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves. Instead of the greasy, indignant, impoverished out-of-jointers who formerly served Odets as a kind of Nick-the-Greek chorus, Night Music offers a benevolent detective, half Mr. Fixit, half Dutch uncle, who chants to the lovers of the Land of Opportunity. And not one of Odets' three dozen characters cuts in with...
Archbishop Schrembs blamed the revolt on a minority of 50 families. But no great throng of erring children hastened to make their submissions. Last Sunday, many a parishioner worshiped before a gaudy statue in his home. Said Nick Gambatese, as his daughters prayed to the Holy Mother: "I stay home until I find out more about it." Nicola Scricca fixed up a big altar, told reporters: "Every day we pray here-my wife and four children. Today it was our 'Mass.' I read and they are the congregation. It is the best we can do. . . . We will make...