Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christmas morning, Night Watchman Andrew Hislop, long used to such sounds, came upon a startling sight: there were marks on the carpet indicating that a heavy object had been dragged down the altar steps, through the transept, past the memorial to Dryden and the graves of Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson, to a side door near the Poets' Corner. Hislop rushed to a phone, called the police. "The Stone is gone," he cried, "the coronation Stone...
...moviegoers-and most Britons, for that matter-will look hard, and probably in vain, to find any real grounds for controversy. Some in both countries may object that the movie treats its royalty with the special deference that Hollywood reserves for visiting dignitaries. But the story's stuffiness, as well as its sentimentality, has been filigreed with humor, and Producer-Scripter Nunnally Johnson has knowingly worked the combination into an enjoyable film...
Audition. In Philadelphia, investigating complaints that someone was screaming in the Shubert Theater at 4 a.m., cops found Night Watchman Hector Williams, 67, singing "My object all sublime" from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado to 1,900 empty seats...
Last week, a Senate investigating committee resurrected the case of Alfred Redl as an object lesson for the U.S. For 27 weeks, North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, with three other Democratic Senators and three Republicans, had been quietly looking into a sordid matter: the problem of homosexuals in the Government. The problem had been the subject of nervous explanations, joke-cracking and effective campaign sneers ever since last February, when Deputy Under Secretary of State John Peurifoy offhandedly told Congress that State had gotten rid of 91 employees for homosexuality...
...object of Stendhal's satire is the cheap-jack kingery of Louis Philippe-that "crowned calculating machine"-and the belowstairs thimblerigging of the corrupt, bureaucrazed regime through which he misgoverned France...