Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp, character-etching lines, MacLeish gets them onto the platform, which turns out to be "heaven" in a play about Job that is regularly performed there. They find the masks the regular actors use, and turn themselves into God (Mr. Zuss) and Old Nick himself. The familiar words of the Bible begin to issue from their mouths. "Whence comest thou?" asks God. "From going to and fro in the earth," Satan replies, "and from walking up and down in it . . ." But with a roar, Nickles wrenches off his Satan mask and stares at it. "Those eyes see ... They...
Crimson captain Sam Huntington at 157 and undefeated Pete Stanley at 167, who has pinned all but one of his opponents, are favored to win their matches. Yardling hopes also rest on Hal Pouser at 123, Carl Kludt at 130, and Nick Estabrook...
Among the more experienced of the others are Nick Esterbrook at 147 and Andy Pettit at 157. Esterbrook previously wrestled at Milton and he gained one of the Yardling's three pins against the Engineers...
...Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into the suburbs, lined up against the mayor. Organized labor supported Big Nick...
...biggest opposition came from "non-Denverites and crackpots," and so alienated the few leading businessmen and professional men who had remained on the sidelines. On public panel programs he would all but stop the show by insulting his opponents. When a petition was circulated for his recall, Big Nick allowed that he would like to sign it, "because I would like to see what these people look like." In bounced three sponsors of the petition; the mayor read and signed it, after asking attending newsmen: "What does 'reviling' mean? This petition is full...