Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditionally go about their duties armed at most with truncheons. In a kind of underworld version of old-school-tie sportsmanship, the bullyboys and tearaways in "The Smoke"−as England's capital is known to its criminals−reciprocate by settling their private differences in an equally quiet way, with razor blades half-buried in potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled...
...last August, Spot, dressed in his elegant best, and a tearaway identified as "Italian Albert" Dimes began slashing at each other with shivs amid the crowds of shoppers in Soho's Frith Street−an event which indicated that, at the very least, things were not all quiet in the rackets. Because of the obliging perjury of a petty con man posing as an Anglican parson, both men beat the rap. But soon afterward Jack Spot was set upon once more and slashed in the face and hands; it took 60 stitches to put him together again...
...Quiet, white-haired Dr. Mellon and his wife, both Disciples of Christ, still exchange letters every month with 81-year-old Dr. Schweitzer in his jungle headquarters at Lambarene. As the hospital was about to open its doors, Schweitzer wrote: "The beginnings are always difficult. But you are courageous...
...long and too loud, and Kim Novak fluffed her way through a skit that strained too hard for its laughs. The best part of the Steve Allen show is Steve Allen, an intelligent comedian who has a satiric air, some amusing ideas, a rapid-fire delivery, and a quiet way of being funny that is like nobody else's. Unlike many TV comedians, he is likely to get better as he goes along, and NBC has proved its faith in him by giving him a three-year contract in the Sunday-at-8 spot...
Like most Chayefsky plots, the story of Affair is thin. Debbie Reynolds and her schoolteacher beau (Rod Taylor) plan a quiet, quick marriage in order to take advantage of a free auto trip to California for their honeymoon. Her careworn parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) agree-until the neighbor start talking ("Why so sudden? Is she in trouble?"). Then the parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage...