Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more seams of McCarthyism began to show. Bella Dodd, a New York lawyer, said that she had known a "middleaged" Adelaide Case in Communist-front organizations in 1940 and 1941, but she "never related her to" Clifford Case and did not know Case's sister. There was another, older Adelaide Case, no kin, who was a teacher at Teachers College, Columbia University, and who died...
...human score but have better sense than to add it up. In The Little Mother, a young girl learns one of the deepest truths about middle-class life: "Respectability, far from being a dull and quiet virtue, was like walking a tightrope." And in The Mad Lomasneys, an older man invites the fury of his girl by denying she knows anything about love. Says O'Connor: "At the age of eighteen to be told that there is anything you don't know about love is like a knife in your heart.'' More Stones slows down ordinary...
They are turning back the clock, if not the crowds at the Brattle Theatre this week where Gunga Din, older than some of next year's Advanced Standing students, is making a comeback. This story of the waterboy who made good has passed well into its second decade, and it is a pleasure to report that the excitement and humor which pulled one's ancestors into the theaters have aged less than co-star Cary Grant...
Hollywood's Beau Brummell (Stewart Granger) bears little relation to the historical one. George Bryan Brummell was the younger son of Lord North's private secretary. While at Eton he awed a somewhat older Etonian, George Brunswick, for life. Since George happened to be Prince of Wales, Brummell had no difficulty in entering high society, and was soon acknowledged "absolute monarch of the mode." Even the Prince of Wales once "began to blubber when told that Brummell did not like the cut of his coat." But at last the Beau and his patron had a falling-out; Brummell...
Thomas B. Adams replied that "all the papers have not been read, but they all will be opened to the public." He added that they include a copy of the Declaration of Independence possibly older than the one in the Library of Congress...