Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacques Prevert script is well written, and the dialogue both mirrors and openly remarks on English "common sense." Old maxims are mixed--"Where there's an antidote, there's a poison"--and new ones made up--"Better a full beard than an empty pocket." There is much fear of scandal and it appears that there are a number of things that gentlemen don't do, although the gentlemen go ahead and do them anyway, in as clumsy fashion as possible. The costuming, which for some reason includes kilts, is appropriately ludicrous...
Darkest California. In Los Angeles, Patrick C. Kimball reported that thieves had broken into his garage, departed with 20 poison-tipped darts, two 8-ft. blow-guns and a white man's shrunken head valued...
...lost in the tidal waves of vituperation that crashed around (but never engulfed) his tower fortress on North Michigan Avenue. In a 1936 poll of Washington correspondents, the Tribune was placed among the "least fair and reliable" newspapers in the U.S.; others denounced it as a "ceaseless drip of poison...
...Anthony Eden had described the Germany required for orderly Europe. Said Eden: "It is not part of our purpose to cause Germany to collapse economically. I say that not out of any love for Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst of Europe would poison all of us who are her neighbors. That is not sentiment. It is common sense." But at Yalta, Eden admitted that "there had yet been no [British] Cabinet discussions" on plans for postwar Germany...
...Honeys is not based on the cartoons of Charles Addams-but it might as well be. The play concerns two sisters-in-law who have a perfectly marvelous time murdering their husbands. Its author revels in such lines as "He probably ate his wife" or "The poison will perforate his stomach like a cancelled check." And it does, in its best moments, achieve the same delightful morbidness that now characterizes the Addams people, just as it once distinguished the characters in Arsenic and Old Lace...