Word: oles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back in Prohibition days, and I met Sherwood Anderson," Faulkner used to explain when someone asked how he started to write. His first novel, Soldier's Pay, was published in 1926, but Faulkner had to make his living by odd jobs (including an epic failure as postmaster at Ole Miss) until Sanctuary, his seventh book, came out five years later. For almost the only time in his life he showed bitterness in public, boasting in a preface that the book was a "cheap idea" written only for money. But the money came, and when it was gone Faulkner...
...rejecting Meredith. They pointed, for example, to the lack of accreditation of the school from which Meredith is transferring-their own Jackson State College. U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize duly ruled that Meredith had been turned down on nonracial grounds. But Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom called the Ole Miss burlesque "a carefully calculated campaign of delay, harassment and masterly inactivity." He ordered Judge Mize to issue an injunction forcing Meredith's admission. If Meredith enters Ole Miss next fall as planned, Alabama and South Carolina will be the only states with no integration at any level of public...
...Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...
...scene is set at a party. An aggressive hostess is urging Rosie, a reject from a Pete Seeger concert, to strum her ole guitar. Rosie offers a little tune she picked up from an oppressed refugee once...
Died. Harold Ogden ("Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...