Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Mufti was busy with plans in which his old pal Fawzi would be very handy. The Mufti came up with a tax on Palestine Arabs to raise $900,000 to fight Zionism. Part of the money would go to two Arab "scout armies" called Futuwa and Najada (together they number about 10,000). Among their avowed purposes is persuasion of Palestine Arabs not to sell land to Jews. The Mufti had his picture taken as he reviewed a visiting Najada detachment. The picture turned out remarkably like the one he had taken in 1943, while reviewing...
...young and pretty. While one harridan pinions the newcomer's wrists, the other wrenches back her head and plunges long scissors into her eye. "La! La!" she cries happily as gore spatters in all directions. When the hags have a difference of opinion, one shoves her pal against a red-hot stove...
...pal," said the intruder. Vag had never seen him in his life before. "My very good friend." "I'm broke," replied Vag, out of absent minded instinct, to the knitted set of eyebrows which loomed menaeingly over an opened copy of "General Education in a Eroe Society...
...pace of its first hour or so. During that time ex-Paratrooper Humphrey Bogart hustles all over Gulf City, from morgue to Catholic church to cabaret, in his efforts to learn who rubbed out his comrade-at-arms (William Prince), and why. He becomes interested, particularly, in his late pal's hoarse sweetheart (Lizabeth Scott), in a suave nightclub proprietor (Morris Carnovsky) and in Carnovsky's fat strong-arm boy (Marvin Miller), who likes to torture his victims to soft music...
...close call, had spared Runyon's life but struck him dumb. His larynx had been removed, to check a throat cancer. Since then, his gold pencil, by swift jottings in a loose-leaf notebook, had done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time. But only gaunt...