Word: ralph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Army over a none-too-bright McCarthy staffer named G. David Schine, of the millionaire Schine hotel family. Army Draftee Schine, Joe charged, was being used by the Army as a hostage to keep the McCarthy committee from finding out, among other things, why a brigadier general named Ralph Zwicker had permitted the honorable discharge of a Red-tinted Army dentist named Irving Peress. For 36 days televised hearings made Joe's nasal rhythms, his low-pitched interruptions, his trademark phrases the stock of every mimic in the nation...
...after doctors told him that he had cirrhosis of the liver. But it was too late to go back: Joe McCarthy was a sick man. Once capable of frenetic energies, he found that a single Senate speech (a lone, weak attempt to prevent the promotion of an old target, Ralph Zwicker, to major general) was so exhausting that he had to rest...
Dartmouth took its eventual lead in the sixth when the woodsmen batted around, knocking out McGinnis. A walk and an error by Bob Hastings set the stage for Ralph Manuel's home run to right, and a double steal that caught reliever Bob McGinnis napping scored the seventh...
...them: "This boy wanted to scare somebody and keep the niggers and the whites from going to school together-now that's the truth about it." He appealed to the jury to "call it a bad day and let the boy go on in life." District Attorney Ralph Prince, who let 15 months go by before pressing the indictment, argued less forcibly that the jury should give Ross a jail sentence "that will deter others from committing a similar crime." The jury retired at 4:55 p.m. Ninety minutes later it was back with its verdict: guilty of murder...
...this, with handsome Ralph Alswang sets and superb Motley costumes, has a fine storybook air, but no vibration as story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton...