Word: passel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passel of furtive folk vigorously committing homicide to get hold of a bejeweled statuette of a falcon may sound old-hat to present-day cinemagoers, but Director John Huston makes their melodramatic activities as immediate as a shot in a dark room. His characters keep close to Hammett's originals, who in turn are so close to real life that what is constantly about to happen to them (and often does) becomes at times downright unbearable...
...warm red gumbo. But the Cedar Springs Church of God, to which all the defendants belong, had its biggest turnout in months. Family after family came in by mule and foot, over foot bridge and mountain trail, the man first, his arms full of quilt and baby, next a passel of children, then the woman, carrying the next to youngest. As a kerosene lamp flung shifting shadows on the plain pine walls, the congregation rejoiced, with prayers, a rousing sermon, hymn singing to Defendant McGehee's guitar...