Word: plums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oliver Twist), the picture at times may tax a moviegoer's seasonal good will. Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well. Able Character Actor Alastair Sim is the dependable old brandy that gives this plum pudding a lift...
...cigar-puffing banker and sportsman with four children. The son of an Indianapolis fireman (now the city's fire chief), Frank McKinney went to work in a bank at 15, and broke into politics in 1934 as the Democratic nominee for county treasurer. The job was a choice plum: by law, the treasurer was allowed to keep a percentage (from 3% to 6%) of all delinquent taxes he could collect. On the strength of his anticipated income (which actually ran between $35,000 and $40,000 a year), McKinney borrowed enough more to buy the controlling interest in Indianapolis...
...Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...
...barber was a big man (280 Ibs.) with strong hands and a voice as soft as the plum blossoms...
...escort of motorcycle police guided the cortege of 22 black limousines to the cemetery. In the bright noon sunlight, dappling through Japanese plum trees, the casket was placed on a grassy knoll before the marble-columned mausoleum where Hearst's parents lie. Bishop Block read a poem, The Song of the River, which W.R. himself had written for his papers...